Japan has developed a "color label" blind people can also match clothing (Figure)

Sakawa Hiroshi, an external lecturer at the Women's University of Japan, developed a label that identifies the color of a garment by touching it.

According to Japan's "Tokyo News" reported on July 21, the Japanese women's university clothing department outside the lecturer Sagawa Ken and his graduate students, has developed a label that can identify the color of clothes by hand touch. Through this label, blind-disabled people can feel the colors they can only ask and learn from others.

The R&D team has 10 colors from red to purple on a label of about 5 cm in length and about 3 cm in width, which are distributed in a ring shape in the order of similar colors. This is called the "hue ring", and the basic color uses a bump to open a corresponding hole in the label. Touch with your finger, the small hole at the zero position means red.

Although for blind people, only the name of "red" and other colors is understood in Braille, in the hue circle, starting from the corresponding position, you can understand the similar color or the opposite color, and you can easily get the color of the clothing. impression. For example, a blind person can distinguish between a warm color combination of red and orange.

It is understood that there are about 1 million to 2 million blind-visual people in Japan, including acquired all-blind. Sagawa said that he had decided to develop the label after hearing these visually impaired people's appeal to distinguish the color of the clothing.

The study began four years ago with the help of the Japanese Braille Library, which conducted a survey of 16 blind males and girls who were blind in the same color. A clear hue loop is described in 13 people's data. 10 people have no impression of color, and 3 of them are completely congenital blind.

In the pre-experimental questionnaire, the blind people showed a positive interest. They said: "I hope there is a way to distinguish colors." Especially for congenitally blind women, they hope to match their clothes. Sagawa said, "Even if you are blind, you can grasp the general correct concept through the surrounding dialogue and the intelligence in the book."

The Japanese Braille Library staff member Kaga Kazu, who was blind in college, expressed joy with the development of the label. She said: "You can choose clothes that Suit your mood, and the world is vast. This freedom allows the quality of life to be improved."

Prototypes of such labels have been produced by relevant manufacturers, and orders will be accepted for label manufacturers, and sales for individuals are also being discussed.