Tetragon is an Austrian working group at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology). The project is currently funded by an FFG program called Spin-off Fellowship, which sets the goal to found a spin-off company. Our mission is to improve the lives of people with visual impairments by developing innovative technology.
Michael Treml studied Media Informatics. He came up with the initial idea of combining grouped Braille dots in a rotating device and started his work on the general concept and the software behind it in his master thesis. As Spin-off Fellow, he is now leading the project.
Wolfgang Zagler is a retired professor, who had his own working group for Assisting Technologies. He has decades of experience with Braille displays and was supervising two master theses in which the concept for our first product was developed. Even in his retirement he is eager to bring new assisting inventions to life.
Dominik Busse studied Mechanical Engineering, where he specialized in Lighweight Structures and Applied Machine Elements. He is engineering and building prototypes for Tetragon since his master thesis.
István Deák studied Mechanical Engineering and Management of Technology at the Universities of Technology in Vienna and Delft. He is already experienced as a founder and is now bringing his entrepeneurial passion to Tetragon.
Andreas Dünser studied Biomedical Engineering at FH Technikum Wien. He joined Tetragon in early 2018 to build prototypes and conduct user studies for his bachelor thesis. Now he is continuing this work in the Spin-off Fellowship program.
Georg Ehrenfels learned the job of a watchmaker and is an expert in precision mechanics. He was part of Wolfgang Zagler's working group and is involved in the assembly of our mockups and prototypes since early stages.
Mike Busboom is an expert in Braille reading and Tetragon's most important connection to the blind community, because he is blind himself. He has more than 20 years of experience in Braille display marketing and was also consulting Wolfgang Zagler's working group.
