Paper Info
Title
Development Of An Audio-Haptic Virtual Interface For Navigation Of Large-Scale Environments For People Who Are Blind
Abstract
We are investigating cognitive spatial mapping skills in people who are blind through the use of virtual navigation and assessing the transference of acquired spatial knowledge in large-scale, real-world navigation tasks. Training is carried out with a user-centered, computer-based, navigation software platform called Haptic Audio Game Application (HAGA). This software was developed to assist in orientation and mobility (O&M) training by introducing blind users to a spatial layout of a large-scale environment through immersive and simulation-based virtual navigation. As part of a self-directed, free exploration strategy, users interact with HAGA in order to navigate through a simulated indoor and outdoor virtual environment that represents an actual physical space. Navigation is based on the use of iconic and spatialized auditory cues and vibro-tactile feedback so as to build a cognitive spatial map of the surrounding environment. The ability to transfer acquired spatial information is then assessed in a series of physical navigation tasks carried out in the actual target environment explored virtually.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-40238-3_57
UNIVERSAL ACCESS IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION: USERS AND CONTEXT DIVERSITY, PT III
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multimodal interfaces, Blind, Spatial cognition, Navigation
Spatial analysis,Virtual machine,Computer science,Spatial cognition,Human–computer interaction,Software,Immersion (virtual reality),Orientation and Mobility,Cognition,Multimedia,Haptic technology
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9739
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lotfi B. Merabet1275.06
Jaime Sánchez222230.04