Paper Info
Title
HOMERE: a Multimodal System for Visually Impaired People to Explore Virtual Environments
Abstract
This paper describes the HOMERE system: amultimodal system dedicated to visually impaired peopleto explore and navigate inside virtual environments. Thesystem addresses three main applications: the preparationto the visit of an existing site, the training for the use ofthe blind cane, and the ludic exploration of virtualworlds.The HOMERE system provides the user with differentsensations when navigating inside a virtual world: a forcefeedback corresponding to the manipulation of a virtualblind cane, a thermal feedback corresponding to thesimulation of a virtual sun, and an auditory feedback inspatialized conditions corresponding to the ambientatmosphere and specific events in the simulation. A visualfeedback of the scene is also provided to enable sightedpeople to follow the navigation of the main user.HOMERE has been tested by several visually impairedpeople who were all confident about the potential of thisprototype.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/VR.2003.1191147
VR
Keywords
Field
DocType
virtual sun,virtual world,homere system,visually impaired people,multimodal system,explore virtual environments,use ofthe blind cane,auditory feedback,main user,main application,virtual environment,thermal feedback,amultimodal system,layout,atmosphere,discrete event simulation,force feedback,virtual worlds,virtual reality,testing,atmospheric modeling,sun,navigation
Thermal feedback,Virtual machine,Virtual reality,Computer science,Thermal force,Artificial intelligence,Haptic technology,Metaverse,Computer vision,Auditory feedback,Simulation,Multimedia,Discrete event simulation
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1087-8270
0-7695-1882-6
24
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.47
14
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lecuyer, Anatole11510142.42
Pascal Mobuchon2263.32
Christine Mégard3767.84
Jérôme Perret4334.26
Claude Andriot522923.96
Jean-Pierre Colinot6242.47