Means of communication for visually impaired people. Fractalyphlotechnologies of data communication

ABSTRACT

This article describes technical means of data communication for blind and visually impaired people. Radically new method of haptic and fingerspelling data coding is proposed based on fractal self-similarity of binary code. It would be possible to develop numerous typhlo-appliances at reasonable and low price, thus simplifying teaching Braille system both in conventional, manual, and computer variants. Coding of typhlodata on the basis of fractal self-similarity is referred to as fractal Braille. On the basis of fractal self-similarity of binary code, the concept of haptic and fingerspelling alphabet has been developed which combines essentially different methods of data coding in a single morphological base.