More than 39m people around the world are blind and for many of these individuals, Braille – a reading and writing system that utilises a series of raised dots that represent letters, numbers and punctuation – is a valuable tool.
[s]Medical News Today[/s] reports that now, researchers from the [b]Georgia Institute of Technology[/b] have developed a wearable computer glove that can teach braille, even when the user’s attention is on another activity. The latest creation is an advancement on [b]Piano Touch[/b], which has been built around a process called passive haptic learning (PHL) – the idea that people can learn a skill unconsciously without devoting full attention to what they are learning.
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