Sentence examples for substitution device from inspiring English sources

More than 30 years ago, Dr. Bach-y-Rita developed the first sensory substitution device, routing visual images, via a head-mounted camera, to electrodes taped to the skin on people's backs.

In order to design a "haptic zoom", in this fundamental study, we compare two scaling methods by focusing on the strategies adopted by subjects who are using a sensory substitution device.

Israeli scientists have developed a "sensory substitution device" (SSD) that they say lets congenitally blind people "see" for the first time ever.

All subjects were blindfolded during the laboratory tests where Sc and St subjects used a substitution device.

The samples were then embedded in lowicryl HM20 (Polysciences, Warrington, PA, USA) in a freeze substitution device (EM-AFS Leica Microsystems, Vienna, Austria).

The next day, cell pellets were mounted onto metal specimen pins (Leica Microsystems Inc ,Deerfield, IL), frozen in liquid nitrogen and placed in 100% methanol containing 1% uranyl acetate (SPI Inc) cooled to −80°C in an AFS2 Freeze Substitution Device (Leica Microsystems, Inc).

Sensory substitution devices aim at assisting a deficient sensory modality by means of another sensory modality.

Moreover, despite high technological advancements in recent years, why is there still no full user acceptance of existing sensory substitution devices?

It's a world that may soon become a reality: Some of these applications, like textured touchscreens and sensory substitution devices, might become available in the next decade or two, he says.

The present paper proposes a critical reflexion and hypotheses to explain the social and economic failure of the so-called sensory substitution devices for the blind for which they were designed at the beginning.

These results are discussed in terms of brain plasticity as they influence the design of learning methods for using sensory substitution devices, with the aim to compensate visual impairments.