The challenge of reading music notation for pianists with low vision: An exploratory qualitative study using a head-mounted display

Lussier-Dalpé, Bianka; Houtekier, Catherine; Duquette, Josée; Wanet-Defalque, Marie-Chantal; Wittich, Walter

doi:10.1080/10400435.2019.1661315

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“…This includes devices to support social interaction, recognise social signals and gestures [ 20 , 21 ], provide information about facial expressions [ 22 ], the number of people in their surroundings and their position relative to the user [ 23 ] and simulate eye contact [ 24 ]. Other applications include reading devices [ 25 , 26 ], reading music notation for people with low vision [ 27 ], dancing [ 28 , 29 ], running [ 30 ], education [ 31 ], colour perception [ 32 ], identifying medicines in a cabinet [ 33 ] and improving gait [ 34 , 35 ]. The development of devices for deafblind people has focused on tactile communication, using Braille or a deafblind manual alphabet [ 36 , 37 , 38 ], but also includes other applications such as support for deafblind cat owners [ 39 ].…”

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Wearable Travel Aids for Blind and Partially Sighted People: A Review with a Focus on Design Issues

Hersh

2022

Sensors

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The ability to travel (independently) is very important for participation in education, work, leisure activities, and all other aspects of modern life. Blind and partially sighted people experience a number of barriers to travel, including inaccessible information and environments, and consequently require support from technology or other people to overcome them. Despite the potential of advanced technologies and the development of electronic travel aids, the long cane and guide dog remains the most commonly used solutions. Wearable technologies are becoming increasingly popular. They have the particular advantage of keeping the hands free, thereby facilitating the use of a long cane, guide dog or another device at the same time. They also have the potential to change the ways in which users interact with the environment. The main contributions of this paper are surveying the current state-of-the-art of travel aids from a design perspective and investigating the following issues: (1) The important design issues in wearable travel aids and the extent to which they are taken into account in different devices; (2) The relationship, if any, between where and how travel aids are worn and their design, features and functions; (3) Limitations of existing devices, gaps in provision and future research directions, particularly with regard to meeting potential users’ needs.

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Wearable Travel Aids for Blind and Partially Sighted People: A Review with a Focus on Design Issues

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2022

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A Scoping Review of Assistance and Therapy with Head-Mounted Displays for People Who Are Visually Impaired

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ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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Given the inherent visual affordances of Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) used for Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR), they have been actively used over many years as assistive and therapeutic devices for the people who are visually impaired. In this paper, we report on a scoping review of literature describing the use of HMDs in these areas. Our high-level objectives included detailed reviews and quantitative analyses of the literature, and the development of insights related to emerging trends and future research directions. Our review began with a pool of 1251 papers collected through a variety of mechanisms. Through a structured screening process, we identified 61 English research papers employing HMDs to enhance the visual sense of people with visual impairments for more detailed analyses. Our analyses reveal that there is an increasing amount of HMD-based research on visual assistance and therapy, and there are trends in the approaches associated with the research objectives. For example, AR is most often used for visual assistive purposes, whereas VR is used for therapeutic purposes. We report on eight existing survey papers, and present detailed analyses of the 61 research papers, looking at the mitigation objectives of the researchers (assistive versus therapeutic), the approaches used, the types of HMDs, the targeted visual conditions, and the inclusion of user studies. In addition to our detailed reviews and analyses of the various characteristics, we present observations related to apparent emerging trends and future research directions.

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The challenge of reading music notation for pianists with low vision: An exploratory qualitative study using a head-mounted display

Abstract: 2019):The challenge of reading music notation for pianists with low vision: An exploratory qualitative study using a head-mounted display, Assistive Technology,

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Wearable Travel Aids for Blind and Partially Sighted People: A Review with a Focus on Design Issues

Wearable Travel Aids for Blind and Partially Sighted People: A Review with a Focus on Design Issues

A Scoping Review of Assistance and Therapy with Head-Mounted Displays for People Who Are Visually Impaired

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