The Lormer is a new high tech user friendly aid for deafblind people. It
comprises computer-controlled mechanical equipment, which turns text into the
transmits movement indications of a stylus on into the palm inner surface of af
the user’s hand and thus makes it possible for the deafblind to communicate
with others and to understand those others and text without external assistance
any machine-readable text. The software and the prototype of the Lormers were
developed and/or invented by Thomas Rupp and completed in April 2008. The name
Lormer is derived from Hieronymus Lorm (1821 - 1902), – who became deaf at the
age of 15 and then found that his eyesight was failing. failing. In the middle
of the 19th Century he developed a touch or manual alphabetmanual alphabet
called Lormen, in order to be able to communicate with his fellow men. This
alphabet works by assigning points on the heel and palm of a hand and lines are
assigned in such a way that combinations of lines & points, drawn directly on
the hand are given letters or letter combinations. The Lormen language is
language is still at the present day the most important communication form for
deafblind people. The Lormer is particularly important to those deafblind
people who cannot use Braille but who have the ability to could control a
Lormer. These people are, currently, always dependent on a translator, who lorms
newspaper texts or letters, for example, into their hand. This task of lorming
text is taken over by the Lormer. Word documents, emails, web pages and texts of
all kinds,, are converted by the Lormer software into motion, of the stylus
built into the Lormer hardware. The hand of the deafblind person is placed on a
cushioned pad, palm upwards, and the Lormer stylus draws lines on the palm in
the form of Lormen characters enabling the person to receive communication
direct from a computer without any intermediary. The most important functions of
the Lormer can be performed served by deafblind people humans with few buttons
very simply using over a Joystick. Since the equipment has an acoustic output
and speech recognition, spoken text can be turned directly into Lormmoves using a
microphone. This enables direct person to person communication between the deafblind and those who are not deafblind The deafblind can also react directly to
the spoken and/or Lormered text and communicate directly with other people in
this way. A keyboard is used by the deafblind person to enter an answer.
Simultaneously as the user depresses a key the appropriate letter is Lormered as
a check into the hand of the deafblind user. In this way the deafblind user
recognizes the arrangement of the keys on the keyboard and can then learn the
independent writing of text. The Lormer offers deafblind people an independent
and above all intelligent access to currently inaccessible information as well
as extended communication and learning possibilities.
The Lormer is a new high tech user friendly
aid for deafblind people. It comprises computer-controlled mechanical
equipment, which turns text into the transmits movement indications of a stylus
oninto the palminner surface of af the user’s hand and thus makes it possible
for the deafblind to communicate with others and to understand those others and
text without external assistance any machine-readable text. The software and the
prototype of the Lormers were developed and/or invented by Thomas Rupp and
completed in April 2008. The name Lormer is derived from Hieronymus Lorm (1821 -
1902), – who became deaf at the age of 15 and then found that his eyesight was
failing. failing. In the middle of the 19th Century he developed a touch or
manual alphabetmanual alphabet called Lormen, in order to be able to communicate
with his fellow men. This alphabet works by assigning points on the heel and
palm of a hand and lines are assigned in such a way that combinations of lines &
points, drawn directly on the hand are given letters or letter combinations. The
Lormen language is language is still at the present day the most important
communication form for deafblind people.
The Lormer is particularly important to those
deafblind people who cannot use Braille but who have the ability to could
control a Lormer. These people are, currently, always dependent on a translator,
who lorms newspaper texts or letters, for example, into their hand. This task of
lorming text is taken over by the Lormer. Word documents, emails, web pages and
texts of all kinds,, are converted by the Lormer software into motion, of the
stylus built into the Lormer hardware.The hand of the deafblind person is
placed on a cushioned pad, palm upwards, and the Lormer stylus draws lines on
the palm in the form of Lormen characters enabling the person to receive
communication direct from a computer without any intermediary.
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