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Welcome to iFeelPixel Association: the Community of Universal Access. Our goal is to make accessible and interactive pictures elements. We’ve clearly entered the age of universal access, regardless of disability.


We develop th
e iFeelPixel™ Multimodal application to help disabled people access computers and interact with their graphical environment through three senses: vision, touch and hearing.

iFeelPixel software provides
visio-tactile sensations, audio-tactile informations and tactile feedback based on pictures elements (Text, Games, Graphics... you can feel any sort of pixel under your cursor)

iFeelPixel is a collaborative project with international developers and industrial partners:
INRIA, Immersion Corporation, Logitech


iFeelPixel main benefits (see iFeelPixel features for details):
. Adds instantly tactile effects, sounds and music to any image
. Offers a multisensory immersion environment with any visual graphic
. Feel the web, the desktop, pictures and applications trough your Mouse
. Revolutionary technology adds the sense of feel to your computing experience
. Pixel detection, carried out in real time, is announced by a tactile or sound message

iFeelPixel™ makes palpable pixels on the fly, you can surf all the web visually, haptically and auditorally. You won't believe your eyes, fingers and ears!

If it is useful for you to explore the senses of touch, vision and hearing on computer, our products are built around your specific needs:
Desktop accessibility, gaming accessibility, internet accessibility, virtual museums, web cams,
products for visually impaired, products for hearing impaired, gamers and musicians, haptic devices for blind individuals, alternative of alphabet braille, virtual haptic textile ...

iFeelPixel TactileWare, including vision, audio and touch, enables universal web access:
Sighted people can use the graphical feedback to visualize the data while blind people can use the audio and haptic features to extract information. Feeling is believing!

This is an exciting adventure and you can participate with us for improving
the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and make more accessible internet.
The best of two worlds: When the human touch meets the electronic computer...
"Hand in hand"

Description - features and possibilities (image copyright © VCG)

Download iFeelPixel TactileWare: the only software that allows a user to feel the pixels on the screen.

"The power of the Web is in its universality.
Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."

Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

 

 



iFeelPixel User's Review and Testimonial Extracts


Please try iFeelPixel then send your comments and suggestions to help improve our TactileWare

"Tactile feedback is so important to the computing experience! I really thought it would be a standard feature of every operating system by now" Mike (iFeel Mouse, University of Michigan)

"I tried it on OSG viewer with an open flight model. I think if we could load some string or stretch features etc would be cool" Iswaran (Visual simulation website: Viswire)

"I wish you could bundle the gaming component too. It would be awesome to have this work with all my games." Steve L. (Tested with Logitech iFeel Mouse on Mozilla Firefox Browser and Painkiller Overdose Demo Game)

"Great software" Annette Gorski (Tested with Logitech iFeel Mouse)

"Using Wingman Force Feedback mouse in an experiment to help my daughter with cerebral palsy: she can control her movements when they are stimulated by external sources, eg gravity - hand in free fall a few inches, or steering the hand while I shake it gently. I believe this kind of software can help her." Bo Sundborg

"Dunno what to say, it's great like what it is atm :-)" Maxime (Logitech iFeel Mouse)

"I love this software, I've had it ever since it first came out." Jean M. (Logitech iFeel Mouse)

"It's a good software." Tested by Josh with iFeelMouse

"This is very interesting and impressive." (Korea, iFeel Mouse user)

Game and movies tested with iFeelPixel TactileWare:
Battlefield 2
Google Video Random

"This software program is a very good program." Marco

"thanks..... very available.... gooooood.... fun & fun !" Jong (Korea, iFeel Mouse user)

"Interesting - especialy texture feature ..." Ken (iFeel Mouse user)

"I like the software. It gave me more options than just the basic immersion software i had." Sara

"I have had the Ifeel mouse for a long time and I LOVE it!!" Dora

"The great point is about the invaluable help that the software could bring to disabled people, to hear, and feel the desktop, used in conjunction with MouseKeys it's also very neat and useful." Juan Pablo G.

"The software is great. I got my mouse working now thanx" Bryant Garzon

"This program is GREAT! It can be useful, and it can be VERY fun.
I and my friends have good time with it. Good job!" Egor, Russia

"Good software." Rossi

"Maybe the hidden application and hook-up for the blind" John C.

"It's cool, I like it, I had good fun with it" Bill C.

Game tested by Bill c. with iFeelPixel:
Unreal Tournament 2004 - Editor's Choice

"Nice free software :-)" Troy, Australia

"It should come with TouchWare Gaming together.
This is a very good conception, just continue doing it!" David, Hungary

Game tested by David with iFeelPixel:
Neighbors from Hell
Software tested by David with iFeelPixel:
InterVideo WINDVD 7 Gold DVD Playback Software

"Liked the software interface." Jody, Canada

"I enjoyed the experience. Look forward to more" Neri

"Nice work guys. Love to have more iFeel-compatible apps out there" Robert

"Really interesting idea and you pulled it off quite well! I've been a long time Force Feedback
programmer (used to work for Immersion)... kudos!" Evan, USA

"Hmm ... very nice ..." Mathias, Danmark

"I use iFeelPixel with a lots of Game Sites, I think it is very interesting to move over
pictures with this technology... this software is very good!" Gildo, Germany

"I find the Morse engine useful as I am learning it." Tom

"Interesting piece of software. I've enjoyed trying out iFeelPixel so far.
Sounds like the beta 0.2 will be great! I'm a researcher at York university working with
force
feedback devices to control musical instruments" Stuart Rimell, England

"iFeelPixel is a nice program" Ben

"I just like iFeelPixel cause i now get feedback while surfing using opera.
Since the
Immersion web plugins don't work with opera." Schido, Netherlands

Software tested by Schido with iFeelPixel:
Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Opera Web Browser
Website tested by Schido with iFeelPixel:
www.photo.net

"Fun" Dan

"Your iFeelPixel software is very impressive realism and highly tweakable.
iFeelPixel finds the way to improve the experience when we surf the web,
view an image and like most other things that we do on a Personal Computer.
The feeling of touching an image is really good, I don't have any problem
with another TouchWare like Immersion TouchWare Desktop.
I have try to search the web all the way to find games with
Force Feedback, but I didn't find a lot of things...
With your software, any image on desktop become touchable,
this is a fantastic and superb new FF experience.
Perhaps iFeelPixel is the future of Force Feedback experiences for PC,
it has a lot of possibilities like no other software I have ever used.
Thanks a lot for your great work!"
Angelo, Italia

Software tested by Angelo with iFeelPixel:
ACDsee picture viewer, image management and photo editing
Website tested by Angelo with iFeelPixel:
Any website with images

 



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Last research shows that haptic feedback (also known as tactile, touch, vibrotactile, or force feedback) has been found to:

- Increase user speed and accuracy
- Reduce complication and stress
- Improve user satisfaction

More information on research performed by companies and universities can be found in the Immersion white paper The Value of Haptics, available at:
http://www.immersion.com/valueofhaptics.php.

 Current Archive 
Date
Headline
May 27, 2008
WiiFeelPixel: iFeelPixel is compatible with Nintendo Wii remote controller
Jan 01, 2008
iFeelPixel TactileWare version 0.8.3 available (windows vista compatible)
May 30, 2006
iFeelPixel TactileWare version 0.8.1 available
July 18, 2005
Tactile Images: feeling the relief of images
July 17, 2005
Feeling Bumps and Holes without a Haptic Interface
June 03, 2005
The iFeelPixel blog service is officially open (Powered by Blogger).
May. 24, 2005
Immersion Provides Touch Feedback for Touchscreens; TouchSense Technology Supplies the Confirming Feel of Physical Buttons
Mar. 28, 2005
Immersion Obtains $90.7 Million Judgment in Patent Infringement Case Against Sony
Mar. 25, 2005
Feb. 3, 2005
Nov. 24, 2004
Special Christmas: iFeelPixel gifts (e.g. Mousepad) are ready to ship!
iFeelPixel association opens iFeelPixel online store with CafePress.com
Oct. 26, 2004
Introducing VibeTonz for Mobile Phones (Adding Touch to Ring Tones)
Immersion's VibeTonz System Brings Powerful Touch Sensations
to Mobile Phones
(e.g. Samsung phone) [Immersion press release]
Sep. 21, 2004
Tactile Graphics Resources
by
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Sep. 16, 2004
Blindness-Related Links (iFeelPixel combines tactile and audio feedback)
by
The Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ABVI)
Aug. 23, 2004
Aug. 15, 2004
July 15, 2004
May 22, 2004
iFeelpixel website joins Amazon.com Associates.
Mar. 12, 2004
Jan. 2, 2004
iFeelPixel website joins Google AdWords Program.
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