Team CBI (Center for Braille Innovation)

  Reference Materials

• EAP Braille Display Needs and Requirements
• EAP Actuators Aid the Quest for the "Holy Braille" of Tactile Displays
• Dynamic Braille
• Braille Displays Get New Life With Artificial Muscles
• Braille Touchscreen Could Bring iPhones to the Blind
• CBI White Paper

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Braille for Everyone

  On-Going Projects

     
Left: Northeastern University's logo.
Right: A prototype which uses an actuator array and dielectric elastomer diaphragm with thin metal traces that activate individual dots.

• Northeastern University, Boston, MA:
  Research and develop to create a low cost braille embosser
• Yosi-Bar Cohen, a senior researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion:
  integrating electro active polymers into a full page braille display
• Takao Someya, researcher and professor in the Quantum Phase Electronics Center, School of Engineering at University of Tokyo:
  Adapting robot skin to braille with organic polymers

Left: The world's first braille sheet display on a credit card.
Right: A sample of rubber-like circuits that can twist, stretch and bend without losing conductivity.

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  Conferences

Team CBI will be attending the EAP-in-Action Session March 8. This session is held annually as part of the SPIE's EAPAD conference and focuses on Electroactive Polymers (EAP) materials and their applications. Our engineers, Deane Blazie and Noel Runyan will be speaking at the session about "Commercial Active Braille Displays."

More information about the EAP Session.

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