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HCI
2009
14 years 9 months ago
A Modality Replacement Framework for the Communication between Blind and Hearing Impaired People
This paper presents a multimodal framework for the communication between blind and hearing impaired people. The algorithms that are developed are based on the concept of modality r...
Konstantinos Moustakas, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Laila ...
HAID
2008
Springer
15 years 23 days ago
Evaluation of Continuous Direction Encoding with Tactile Belts
Tactile displays consisting of tactors located around the user’s waist are a proven means for displaying directions in the horizontal plane. These displays use the body location ...
Martin Pielot, Niels Henze, Wilko Heuten, Susanne ...
HAPTICS
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 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...
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Isovists as a Means to Predict Spatial Experience and Behavior
Two experiments are presented studying interrelations between spatial properties of environments and both experience and spatial behavior. In order to systematically study such int...
Jan Malte Wiener, Gerald Franz
ASSETS
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Interactive tracking of movable objects for the blind on the basis of environment models and perception-oriented object recognit
In previous work we have presented a prototype of an assistant system for the blind that can be used for self-localization and interactive object identification of static objects ...
Andreas Hub, Tim Hartter, Thomas Ertl