Stereopilot: A wearable target location system for blind and visually impaired using spatial audio rendering

X Hu, A Song, Z Wei, H Zeng - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision loss severely impacts object recognition and spatial cognition for limited vision
individuals. It is a challenge to compensate for this using other sensory modalities, such as …

An interface for enhanced teacher awareness of student actions and attention in a vr classroom

DM Broussard, Y Rahman… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Networked VR is gaining recognition as a way to provide remote presentations or classes
when in-person meetings are difficult or risky to conduct. However, the tools do not provide …

Evoking empathy with visually impaired people through an augmented reality embodiment experience

R Guarese, E Pretty, H Fayek… - … Virtual Reality and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To promote empathy with people that have disabilities, we propose a multi-sensory
interactive experience that allows sighted users to embody having a visual impairment whilst …

Evaluating micro-guidance sonification methods in manual tasks for blind and visually impaired people

R Guarese, F Zambetta, R van Schyndel - Proceedings of the 34th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a user evaluation of seven sonification methods in two-dimensional
(2D) manual micro-guidance tasks, which can be used as building blocks for spatialized …

Immersive tele-guidance towards evoking empathy with people who are vision impaired

R Guarese, D Polson, F Zambetta - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel approach to promote empathy with people that have disabilities through
the development of an asymmetric collaborative experience. Our research aims to enable …

SonAir: the design of a sonification of radar data for air traffic control

E Elmquist, A Bock, J Lundberg, A Ynnerman… - Journal on Multimodal …, 2023 - Springer
Along with the increase of digitalization and automation, a new kind of working environment
is emerging in the field of air traffic control. Instead of situating the control tower at the airport …

Xr towards tele-guidance: mixing realities in assistive technologies for blind and visually impaired people

R Guarese, E Pretty, F Zambetta - … on Virtual Reality and 3D User …, 2023 - computer.org
This work proposes the use of immersive asymmetric collaboration as an assistive
technology for people who are blind or visually impaired (BVI). Similar to tele-guidance (TG) …

An audio-based 3d spatial guidance ar system for blind users

JM Coughlan, B Biggs, MA Rivière, H Shen - International Conference on …, 2020 - Springer
Augmented reality (AR) has great potential for blind users because it enables a range of
applications that provide audio information about specific locations or directions in the user's …

Exploring audio interfaces for vertical guidance in augmented reality via hand-based feedback

R Guarese, E Pretty, A Renata… - … on Visualization and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This research proposes an evaluation of pitch-based sonification methods via user
experiments in real-life scenarios, specifically vertical guidance, with the aim of …

Moving Towards and Reaching a 3-D Target by Embodied Guidance: Parsimonious Vs Explicit Sound Metaphors

C Fons, S Huet, D Pellerin, S Gerber, C Graff - International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) assist Visually Impaired People (VIP) by
providing information usually acquired by vision through another functional sensory …