Development of Communication Device for Blind-Deaf People: Mobile
Lorm Glove, G. Sathiyabama · 2015
Deaf-blindness is a disability where an individual has little or no useful sight and little or no useful hearing. This impairment requires the person to depend on a caretaker for conventional communication. This paper proposes an efficient way of communicationby a method called Improved Mobile Lorm Glove. The hand-touch alphabet Lorm, a common form of communication used by people with bothhearing and sight impairment translatesthe sensation into text and vice versa by the glove. The input section consists of numerous capacitive touch sensors which correlate with the different characters of Lorm alphabet. Whenever each Lorm alphabet sensor is activated, corresponding alphabet is sent to the receiver’s handheld device through GSM. The output unit consists of small vibrating motors which translates the incoming text messages into Lorm patterns. Thus, deaf-blind people communicate their ideas with the help of Lorm glove. This paper also discusses previous related work, prototype design and interaction. This paper also gives an over view of the research work that can be done in future.