The field of neurobionics offers hope to patients with sensory and motor impairment.
Blindness is a common cause of major sensory loss, with an estimated 39 million people …

Loss of vision alters the day to day life of blind individuals and may impose a significant
burden on their family and the economy. Cortical visual prosthetics have been shown to …

Purpose: Independent mobility is one of the most pressing problems facing people who are
blind. We present the EyeCane, a new mobility aid aimed at increasing perception of …

Common navigational aids used by blind travelers during large-scale navigation divert
attention away from important cues of the immediate environment (ie, approaching vehicles) …

Embedded in the paradigm of embodied cognition, the theory of sensorimotor contingencies
(SMCs) proposes that motor actions and associated sensory stimulations are tied together …

The world of perception is multisensory. Even a simple task such as judging the position of a
light in a dark room depends not only on vision but also on sensory signals about the …

Sensory substitution devices (SSDs) aim to compensate for the loss of a sensory modality,
typically vision, by converting information from the lost modality into stimuli in a remaining …

This paper documents the design, implementation and evaluation of the Unfolding Space
Glove—an open source sensory substitution device. It transmits the relative position and …

Sensory substitution devices aim at replacing or assisting one or several functions of a
deficient sensory modality by means of another sensory modality. Despite the numerous …

Preface: Registers toward the end of winter in 2012 I broke my foot. This was a stress
fracture, the cumulative effect of cyclic loading stress over a long season of running uphill on …