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Archived Newsletters 2010-08-11 Vibratese
Vibratese - A method of communication through touch. It was developed by F. A.
Geldard, 1957. It is a tactile system based on both practical considerations
and on results from a set of controlled psychophysical experiments
Vibratese was composed of 45 basic
elements, the tactile equivalent of numerals and letters. The entire English
alphabet and numerals 0 to 9 could be communicated this way. Geldard reported
that with proper training, rates of more than 35 words per minute were possible for
reading. These rates are three times that of an expert with Morse code.
Vibratese is no longer in use, with little literature available on the subject.
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