[optacon-l] Re: Optacon Tactile Display Intensity Survey
- From: "Marie Rudys" <mrudys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:37:48 -0700
Dear Dr. Bliss,
I just want to thank you so much for developing the Optacon. I am glad to
be able to read print for myself instead of having to pester people to read
for me when they don't want to be bothered in this day and age. I have
wanted to use one since the 1970's, but those old fuddy-duddies in Illinois
Rehab did not want the blind people to have any access to anything and that
made me mad, so I left that state in 1980 and put that dream away for a long
time. When I finally dared to ask in 1994, and I was living in Nevada at
the time, which I hated so much, I finally got what I wanted: I was the only
one in Reno using the Optacon and I picked it up in four months; it not only
surprised the teacher, Kevin Hull, but everyone else, me, too!! When I want
to learn something badly enough, it will stick with me in such a way that
when I finally get it, well, I am more than ready to learn it and put it to
use. Illinois has never been as progressive a state anyway, not in
educating the blind and in their treatment in Rehab. My parents did not
understand it, but I did. They said because of my attitude, I was not going
to get any services from them because I refused to work in a sheltered
workshop. Just what did it have with my dream for an Optacon? Nothing; it
only made me want it more. I didn't care; I wanted that Optacon, and I told
that old man I didn't like him, either, and that I wished he had never been
assigned to my area. California sure is different about it, but I was
afraid to ask. All the Optacons I ever got are used, and I never had a new
one. Anyway, I really wanted to say, thank you for that special kind of
freedom I would never have otherwise. I don't care that it is one letter at
a time; I am just glad I can read and understand what I am reading! I use
my current one now that it has been restored by Richard Oehm, and I thanked
him for a job well done. Do keep us posted about the development of a
newer, smaller, and lighter Optacon. I am glad I was able to take part in
this.
Marie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Bliss" <jamescbliss@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 7:06 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Optacon Tactile Display Intensity Survey
> Optacon users,
> Thanks for your participation in the survey. The results are very helpful
> to our research. As promised, below are the results in table form.
>
> I don't know if this listserv allows it, but I've attached a Excel of the
> results also.
>
> Jim Bliss
>
>
> Tactile Display Intensity Survey No. Subject Min Best Max Comment
> 1 Ota 4 9 2 Weichbrodt 6 8 9 3 Arnold 5 6 8 4 Wallans 6 6
> Uncomfortable at a higher intensity 5 Selfridge 5 9 10 would hurt my
> finger 6 Sunshine 10 10 depends on text, have used lower 7 Rudys 10 10
> 8 Hippler 5 7 8 9 Kegg 8 10 10 If I read for a long time I might turn it
> down 10 Johnson 9 10 10 I start reading at 10, then I might turn it down a
> bit 11 Bishop R1D 5 10 10 at 5 speed lost and images recognition difficult
> 12 Bishop R2B 4 7 9 Can still recognize images at 4 13 Edmonds 4 10 10 My
> numbers same as Emerson 14 Dotson 4 6 7 If my hands are cold 15 Handel 5
> 10
> 10 16 Metcalf 6 9 10 uses R1D, Age 70, Optacon 2 seemed les intense 17
> Castner 8 I've read 3 books 18 Emerson 4 10 10 Feels like braille at
> 10
> 19 Blier 6 8 10 20 Luland 6 8 10 May vary with different types of print
> and fonts 21 Huffman 5 8 10 22 Rachel 10 10 Lowers it a bit when
> finger
> becomes fatigued 23 Karla 2 6 8 < 2 or 3, images blurred, > 8 finger
> tingles
> uncomfortably 24 Shari 3 4 8 25 Phelps 4 6 10 Longer periods I push
> intensity up 26 Wills 6 8 8 9 to 10 is too intense 27 Kent 7 10 10 10
> especially if my hands are cold 28 Westjohn 2 6 <2 images blurred, > 8
> finger tingles uncomfortably 29 Phelps 4 6 10 Never had difficulty with
> intensity discomfort 30 Shari 3 4 8 31 Wills 6 8 9 10 is too intense and
> 9
> is almost as bad 32 Robertson 4 6 10 On another R1D max is 9 33 Thomas 5
> 10
> 10 On both an R1D and Optacon 2 34 Englebretson 7 8 10 I wish it could go
> higher 35 Handel 5 10 10 36 Reese 3 6 10 Can't use 10 for very long 37
> de
> Klerk 3 5 8 I turn it up when my hands are cold 38 Steve 6 8 10 Higher
> when
> print is crappy, Lower decreases speed 39 Keithley 4 6 10 Totals 160 293
> 344 Average 4.8 7.7 9.3
>
>
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