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DIMEA
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Toward accessible 3D virtual environments for the blind and visually impaired
3D virtual environments are increasingly used for education, business and recreation but are often inaccessible to users who are visually impaired, effectively creating a digital ...
Gareth R. White, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Graham McA...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Support System for Visually Impaired Persons to Understand Three-dimensional Visual Information Using Acoustic Interface
Visual information processing technology is very important in the implementation for sensory substitution of visually impaired persons as well as applications to factory automatio...
Yoshihiro Kawai, Fumiaki Tomita
HHCI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Haptic Graphs for Blind Computer Users
In this paper we discuss the design of computer-based haptic graphs for blind and visually impaired people with the support of our preliminary experimental results. Since visual i...
Wai Yu, Rameshsharma Ramloll, Stephen A. Brewster
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Computer vision-based clear path guidance for blind wheelchair users
We describe a system for guiding blind and visually impaired wheelchair users along a clear path that uses computer vision to sense the presence of obstacles or other terrain feat...
Volodymyr Ivanchenko, James Coughlan, William Gerr...
HAPTICS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Bringing Haptics to Second Life for Visually Impaired People
Potential applications of online virtual worlds are attracting the interest of many researchers around the world. One and perhaps the most famous example of such systems is Linden ...
Maurizio de Pascale, Sara Mulatto, Domenico Pratti...