ViBraille

Vibraille can be navigated through a set of hand gestures and tactile inputs. Once installed by the caregiver of a deafblind person, the ViBraille app always remains on.

-the main screen is where deafblind people enter their Braille text, the words can be composed by combinations of “short presses” and “long presses”.

-The second screen is where non deafblind people enter their text, then it convert into braille then into vibrations so the deafblind can feel it and decode it.

While haptic feedback allows the deafblind person to sense the letters being tapped on the screen, the text display allows the caregiver to verify the message visually.

-With proper training, any deafblind person will be able to decode the message received in the form of vibrations.

-The technology behind:

the smartphone’s ability to vibrate offers the much needed tactile feedback to the deafblind. We combined it with the simplicity of a 194 year old language – Braille. Made up of just full dots and empty ones, Braille is a binary language, which can be perfectly translated into two distinct “tactile inputs” – short & long presses; and two distinct “tactile outputs” – short & long vibrations. Combinations of these inputs make words, which when transmitted as vibrations, can be felt and decoded by the deafblind.

And for the first time in human history, the deafblind have a two-way communication tool.