For persons with visual impairment, forming cognitive maps of unfamiliar interior spaces can
be challenging. Various technical developments have converged to make it feasible, without …

This paper presents a systematic review of the existing range and current state of the art in
audio-based assistive technology for the visually impaired (VI). Electronic travel aid (ETA) …

Spatial awareness, particularly awareness of distant environmental scenes known as vista-
space, is crucial and contributes to the cognitive and aesthetic needs of People with Visual …

Musical Vision is a highly flexible, interactive and bio-inspired sonification tool that translates
color images into harmonic polyphonic music by mimicking the human visual system in …

There are several situations in which a person with visual impairment or blindness needs to
extract information from an image. Examples include everyday activities, like reading a map …

Indoor navigation is an important service, currently investigated both in industry and
academia. While the main focus of research is the computation of users' position, the …

Introduction Historically, astronomy has prioritized visuals to present information, with
scientists and communicators overlooking the critical need to communicate astrophysics …

This article deals with the process of sonification design for guidance tasks. It presents
several studies that aim at overcoming two major problems of sonification: the aesthetics of …

Blind players have many difficulties to access video games since most of them rely on
impressive graphics and immersive visual experiences. To overcome this limitation, we …

The use of sound to systematically communicate data has been with us for a long time, and
has received considerable research, albeit in a broad range of distinct fields of inquiry …