An alumnus of University of Oxford in the U.K., Raanan Liebermann is the president of Signtel, Inc., located in North Haven, Connecticut. The company works on various assistive technologies for people with visual and hearing challenges. Among many other projects, Raanan Liebermann also created the Touch Language. Here’s more on this innovative language.
Instead of relying on grammar, Touch Language relies on concepts. The fact that the users can articulate these concepts by positioning their fingers and hands makes this language universal, independent of the locally spoken language.
To communicate via Touch Language, the users need special electronic gloves. The gloves vibrate and peck in particular areas of the hands and fingers to denote various concepts. For example, time adverbs are located on the distal phalanx of the little finger. Adverbs and noun modifiers are on the intermediate phalanx of the ring finger, while affirmation and negation areas are near the wrist. This language is in the public domain, despite being patented to prevent any possible changes and modifications by a third party user. Any modifications will have to be approved by the World Touch Language Forum. Touch Language can be downloaded free of charge from the Signtel, Inc. website at: www.signtelinc.com.
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