Inducement prize: Tactile Displays for the Visually Impaired
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View on F&T portalPeople with visual impairment have serious difficulties in accessing digital information. This is a growing challenge as digital content becomes increasingly reliant on graphics which are particularly challenging to translate. Existing solutions are very costly and provide limited reading experience, usually in braille and not graphics. The objectives of this inducement prize are: to address this significant gap in the ICT market with a tactile graphical display that makes visually impaired people benefit from digital technologies and improves the quality of their lives especially in the area of education and navigation; and, to stimulate broader European efforts in developing solutions for this societal need.
The indicative budget for the prize is EUR 3.00 million from the 2019 budget[1].
Expected Impact:An affordable, full-page tactile display, which is able to convey digital information in both braille and tactile graphics form to improve access to digital information for people with visual impairments. The solution should benefit visually impaired people (30 million in Europe) but also a wider range of people in need of multitasking solutions where, vision being engaged, the touch function of hands needs to be applied.
[1]The budget amounts for the 2019 budget are indicative and will be subject to a separate financing decision to cover the amounts to be allocated for 2019.
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The evaluation process has finalized. No winner has been identified for this contest as none of the finalists invited to demonstrate and test their solution passed the threshold ofall award criteria.
The evaluation of the proposals is taking longer than initially planned. The evaluation results will be announced, at the latest, by the end of September 2019
The first phase of the evaluation of the H2020-TactilePrize-2017call has taken place during January 2019.The indicative time table stated that the entire evaluation will be conducted in Janary.However, the demonstration phase has yet to take place.This one is foreseen sometime during the first Quarter of 2019.
No results will be communicated to participants until the entire evaluation process is finalised, that is during the second quarter of 2019.
The H2020-TactilePrize-2017call closed on 27 November 2018 at 17.00.00 (Brussels local time) .15 applicationshave been submittedin response to this call.
Opening date: 2018-04-17 (8 years ago)
Closing date: 2018-11-27 (7 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage
Budget: 3,000,000
Expected grants: not specified
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