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Record W7006325281

Tiresias [portable braille display]

2008· other· en· W7006325281 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueSummit (Simon Fraser University) · 2008
Typeother
Languageen
Field
Topic
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBrailleASCIIVisually impairedDisplay deviceTranslation (biology)WonderFontMovement (music)
DOInot available

Abstract

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BDot is introducing its own revolutionary system, Tiresias, a portable, costeffective Braille display for the visually impaired. With advances in the mobility of technology, it’s no wonder that assistive devices also need to be more portable. While there are many models currently available, large, extensive displays are not affordable for everyone. Tiresias will prove to be a viable solution for any visually impaired person. \nA compact Braille display system will ensure easier integration of the visually impaired within society, allowing them to contribute as much, if not more, than any able-bodied Canadian. However, to ensure maximum effectiveness, it is the intention of this company to create a refreshable Braille display. By using compressible pins (in sets of six), ASCII characters will be read in, and translated into a corresponding Braille character. By using an innovative rotating system, these characters can be reset, to allow for continuous and seamless translation of digital information for the visually impaired.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.242
Threshold uncertainty score0.809

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2420.115

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.205
Teacher spread0.192 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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