ABILITY invited at the opening of the Campus Louis Braille in Paris

Image showing the dismantled tablet on a wooden table and Lucie checking the current on some cables.

We see the overview of the demo room, with tables on each side (left and right) with various companies and projects, doing demonstrations to many people in the center of the room. In the left low corner, we see the ABILITY table with Amélie from H-LAB showing the lo-fi materials used in the studies

We see the table with the ABILITY prototype. 3 people in front of the table, including one trying the prototype with its finger on it, and Sabrina and Lucie from CEA explaining the project and the tablet.

The picture shows Lucie leaning over the lo-fi materials and ABILITY flyers in a discussion with a woman about the project.

The person put her fingers on a black area with no feedback and on a red colour with an attributed vibrotactile pattern, as instructed to feel the localised aspect of the tablet

We see Sabrina and Lucie, both leaning over the table with the prototype and materials, and both discussing with different interested testers.

This is another image of a tester of the haptic feedback. This picture in particular shows how the user used multiple fingers, taking advantage of the multitouch feedback capabilities of the tablet

The picture shows the stage with the whole team posing and Thibaut de Martimprey the organiser who invited us at the event

3 December 2024

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This first week of December has been busy for the ABILITY project consortium. The CEA team (special thanks to Ayoub, Charles, Fabrice and Theotime) has been working hard to finalise the 10inch prototype of the haptic tablet, i.e. the one providing localised vibrations anywhere on the screen and for multitouch exploration. But their hard work has been largely rewarded by the demonstration that we did with Lucie and myself, and Amélie from the H-Lab at the inauguration of the Campus Louis Braille on the 3rd of December.

The campus Louis Braille is both a location in the center of Paris and mostly an ambitious but needed initiative to group researchers, start-ups, students and any relevant stakeholders to work together to develop concrete solutions for accessibility in order to improve the autonomy and daily life of visually impaired and blind persons. It aims to be a motor for research, innovation and training in France but also at the European scale.

We were honoured and thrilled to be invited to present the ABILITY project and demonstrate our latest achievements. It started with some challenges, but luckily with the right tools and remote help, Lucie managed to fix the few remaining bugs. We were able to both demonstrate the tablet, with a set of few different patterns, as well as present the tactile materials we used for the lo-fi workshops from the University of Lund. We think this event was a success and very valuable for ABILITY: many people, including visually impaired people, tried the tablet and were curious about testing the future use cases (unfortunately not yet implemented for the demo). We also got contacts with actors in the field, i.e. teachers, representatives of associations, etc. and mostly had many insightful discussions. Sadly, the time was too short to manage to talk to everyone!

We hope though that more people will follow the project and participate in the upcoming studies early next year! Stay tuned!

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Campus Louis Braille website (in French)

Institut national des jeunes aveugles (INJA), Boulevard des Invalides, Paris, France

ABILITY invited at the opening of the Campus Louis Braille in Paris

3 December 2024

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