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From the Ted Talk by Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Now the first interface is called a DriveGrip. So these are a pair of gleovs, and it has vibrating elements on the knuckle part so you can convey instructions about how to steer — the direction and the intensity. Another device is called SpeedStrip. So this is a ciahr — as a matter of fact, it's actually a massage chair. We gut it out, and we rearrange the vibrating elements in different patterns, and we actuate them to convey imtnoaoifrn about the seepd, and also irnottsuicns how to use the gas and the brake pedal. So over here, you can see how the computer understands the environment, and because you cannot see the vibration, we actually put red LED's on the driver so that you can see what's happening. This is the sensory data, and that data is transferred to the deeivcs through the copemtur.

Open Cloze

Now the first interface is called a DriveGrip. So these are a pair of ______, and it has vibrating elements on the knuckle part so you can convey instructions about how to steer — the direction and the intensity. Another device is called SpeedStrip. So this is a _____ — as a matter of fact, it's actually a massage chair. We gut it out, and we rearrange the vibrating elements in different patterns, and we actuate them to convey ___________ about the _____, and also ____________ how to use the gas and the brake pedal. So over here, you can see how the computer understands the environment, and because you cannot see the vibration, we actually put red LED's on the driver so that you can see what's happening. This is the sensory data, and that data is transferred to the _______ through the ________.

Solution

  1. devices
  2. information
  3. speed
  4. chair
  5. computer
  6. gloves
  7. instructions

Original Text

Now the first interface is called a DriveGrip. So these are a pair of gloves, and it has vibrating elements on the knuckle part so you can convey instructions about how to steer — the direction and the intensity. Another device is called SpeedStrip. So this is a chair — as a matter of fact, it's actually a massage chair. We gut it out, and we rearrange the vibrating elements in different patterns, and we actuate them to convey information about the speed, and also instructions how to use the gas and the brake pedal. So over here, you can see how the computer understands the environment, and because you cannot see the vibration, we actually put red LED's on the driver so that you can see what's happening. This is the sensory data, and that data is transferred to the devices through the computer.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
blind person 6
user interface 3
person driving 2
user interfaces 2
vibrating elements 2
instructional cue 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
blind person driving 2

Important Words

  1. actuate
  2. brake
  3. called
  4. chair
  5. computer
  6. convey
  7. data
  8. device
  9. devices
  10. direction
  11. drivegrip
  12. driver
  13. elements
  14. environment
  15. fact
  16. gas
  17. gloves
  18. gut
  19. happening
  20. information
  21. instructions
  22. intensity
  23. interface
  24. knuckle
  25. massage
  26. matter
  27. pair
  28. part
  29. patterns
  30. pedal
  31. put
  32. rearrange
  33. red
  34. sensory
  35. speed
  36. speedstrip
  37. steer
  38. transferred
  39. understands
  40. vibrating
  41. vibration