Tactile Vision: A Personal View
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
- Vol. 71 (3) , 125-130
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0145482x7707100308
Abstract
The author, who is congenitally blind, describes two training programs with a Tactile Vision Substitution System (TVSS), including a mobile version of the device. After mastering the working of the System, which occupied most of the first training program, the author was able to identify specific objects (providing he had previously been “shown” them and had them named) and to grasp such visual concepts as two-point perspective and monocular cues of depth. The TVSS could not perform as either a mobility aid or as a reading device.Keywords
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- Experience of Tactile VisionPerception, 1974