VibroVision: An On-Body Tactile Image Guide for the Blind
Interactivity Demos
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Wacker, Philipp
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Wacharamanotham, Chat
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Spelmezan, Daniel
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Thar, Jan
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Sánchez, David A.
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Bohne, René;
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Borchers, Jan
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.3788-3791
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: Today, persons with a visual impairment use a cane to explore their
surroundings and sense objects in their vicinity. While electronic aids have
been proposed to aid them, they communicate limited information or require a
fixed position. We propose VibroVision, a vest that projects information about
the area in front of the wearer onto her abdomen in the form of a
two-dimensional tactile image rendered by an array of vibration motors. This
vest enables the user to sense features such as shape, position, and distance
of objects in front of her.
