Jim, Parameters requested: Minimum useful intensity = 6. Intensity used most = 8+. Maximum useful intensity = 10. Mark Blier <---> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Bliss" <jamescbliss@xxxxxxxxx> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 12:25 PM Subject: [optacon-l] We need your help in tactile display design Optacon Users I am working with a group at Zone 24X7 and SRI that has a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research Grant (SBIR) to evaluate the feasibility of a totally different technology in tactile displays. We don't know to what extent this technology will be useful in a new Optacon, but if it is, it has the potential of greatly reducing the cost of the Optacon array. We are only at the beginning of this research and we would like your help in determining the range of tactile stimulator intensity needed. Imagine that the Optacon Intensity knob had a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 being the current Optacon's minimum intensity and 10 being the maximum intensity. Now estimate where along this scale you like to read with the Optacon. If you set the knob half way between minimum and maximum, your answer would be 5, if you set the knob 80% of the way from minimum to maximum, your answer would be 8, and so on. Also it would be useful for us to know for each of you what level is too intense, and what the minimum usable level is. I would like to you to email your answer back to me to with these three numbers: Minimum useful intensity: ______ The intensity you use most: ______ Maximum useful intensity: ______. I hope to get 50 or more responses from this listserv. I'll report the results of this survey back to the listserv. Thanks for your help. Jim Bliss to view the list archives, go to: www.freelists.org/archives/optacon-l To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. to view the list archives, go to: www.freelists.org/archives/optacon-l To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject.