Wachs/Duerstock assistive technology
According to Purdue News (March 7): "Ting Zhang, a graduate student in the Purdue School of Industrial Engineering, is developing a system that involves a specially designed joystick attached to a computer. The joystick controls a cursor. When the cursor moves across an object on the screen, force feedback, vibrations and sound cues give the user information about the object’s size, shape, texture and color to help them identify the information displayed on a computer screen."
Zhang is co-advised by IE Associate Professors Juan Wachs and Brad Duerstock, and is part of both Wach's ISAT lab and Duerstock's IAS lab.
A YouTube video is available at: https://youtu.be/teJXnc9lP1w
The research was recently featured in a New Scientist article "Blind people 'see' microscope images using touch-feedback device".