Spatial knowledge via auditory information for blind individuals: spatial cognition studies and the use of audio-VR

A Afonso-Jaco, BFG Katz - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Spatial cognition is a daily life ability, developed in order to be able to understand and
interact with our environment. Even if all the senses are involved in mental representation of …

Current use and future perspectives of spatial audio technologies in electronic travel aids

S Spagnol, G Wersényi, M Bujacz… - Wireless …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Electronic travel aids (ETAs) have been in focus since technology allowed designing
relatively small, light, and mobile devices for assisting the visually impaired. Since visually …

NAVIG: Augmented reality guidance system for the visually impaired: Combining object localization, GNSS, and spatial audio

BFG Katz, S Kammoun, G Parseihian, O Gutierrez… - Virtual Reality, 2012 - Springer
Navigating complex routes and finding objects of interest are challenging tasks for the
visually impaired. The project NAVIG (Navigation Assisted by artificial VIsion and GNSS) is …

Exploration of architectural spaces by blind people using auditory virtual reality for the construction of spatial knowledge

L Picinali, A Afonso, M Denis, BFG Katz - International Journal of Human …, 2014 - Elsevier
Navigation within a closed environment requires analysis of a variety of acoustic cues, a task
that is well developed in many visually impaired individuals, and for which sighted …

Navigation and space perception assistance for the visually impaired: The NAVIG project

S Kammoun, G Parseihian, O Gutierrez, A Brilhault… - Irbm, 2012 - Elsevier
Navigation, especially in unknown areas, remains a major problem for the visually impaired
(VI). Over the past 50years, a number of electronic travel aids (ETAs) have been developed …

Inclusive museums and augmented reality. Affordances, participation, ethics and fun

K Sheehy, H Garcia Carrizosa, J Rix… - … Journal of the …, 2019 - oro.open.ac.uk
Augmented reality (AR) technology possesses several affordances that can support
disabled museum visitors. A structured research review was used to examine the ways in …

[图书][B] Augmented education: Bringing real and virtual learning together

K Sheehy, R Ferguson, G Clough - 2014 - books.google.com
Including relevant case studies and interviews with practitioners, Augmented Education
explores the nature of learning where the'real world'is augmented by use of the virtual to …

Object detection and identification for blind people in video scene

H Jabnoun, F Benzarti, H Amiri - 2015 15th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision is one of the very essential human senses and it plays the most important role in
human perception about surrounding environment. Hence, over thousands of papers have …

Transit apps for people with brain injury and other cognitive disabilities: the state of the art

SA Livingstone-Lee, RW Skelton… - Assistive Technology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Individuals with cognitive disability have difficulty using public transit, but little research is
directed toward this issue. Recent studies suggest that smartphones may be useful assistive …

Reaching nearby sources: comparison between real and virtual sound and visual targets

G Parseihian, C Jouffrais, BFG Katz - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Sound localization studies over the past century have predominantly been concerned with
directional accuracy for far-field sources. Few studies have examined the condition of near …