Mobile Braille Touch Application for Visually Impaired People using Double Diamond Approach

Abstract

Reading and writing in Braille learning using technology for visually impaired people has been available in various forms. One of Braille learning has been developed using smartphone is Mobile Braille Touch (MBT) application. MBT developed is far from perfect, system on MBT still use static keyboard. The button touch in MBT is not effective, so the user cannot touch the button properly. Therefore, Mobile Braille Touch application further developed based on user experiences (UX) correspond with user needs. In this research, we use a Double Diamond method which consists of (1) Discover, (2) Define, (3) Develop, (4) Delivery. The result of this research is developing of new Virtual Braille Keyboard (VBK) that called as dynamic keyboard. This VBK consist of dynamic dot braille and swipe writing assisted button.