Towards Haptic Surface Devices with Force Feedback for Visually Impaired People

Gay, Simon; Rivière, Marc-Aurèle; Pissaloux, Edwige

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94274-2_36

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“…Regarding spatial information, it can be gathered using various sensing modalities [26], [27], which include sonars [28], laser range finders or stereo cameras [29]. Despite the promising results, the effective translation of these technologies in real-world applications is still limited.…”

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Integrating Wearable Haptics and Obstacle Avoidance for the Visually Impaired in Indoor Navigation: A User-Centered Approach

Barontini

Catalano

Pallottino

et al. 2021

IEEE Trans. Haptics

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Recently, in the attempt to increase blind people autonomy and improve their quality of life, a lot of effort has been devoted to develop technological travel aids. These systems can surrogate spatial information about the environment and deliver it to end-users through sensory substitution (auditory, haptic). However, despite the promising research outcomes, these solutions have met scarce acceptance in real-world. Often, this is also due to the limited involvement of real end users in the conceptual and design phases. In this manuscript, we propose a novel indoor navigation system based on wearable haptic technologies. All the developmental phases were driven by continuous feedback from visually impaired persons. The proposed travel aid system consists of a RGB-D camera, a processing unit to compute visual information for obstacle avoidance, and a wearable device, which can provide normal and tangential force cues for guidance in an unknown indoor environment. Experiments with blindfolded subjects and visually impaired participants show that our system could be an effective support during indoor navigation, and a viable tool for training blind people to the usage of travel aids.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Wearable Haptics and Obstacle Avoidance for the Visually Impaired in Indoor Navigation: A User-Centered Approach

Barontini

Catalano

Pallottino

et al. 2021

IEEE Trans. Haptics

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“…We suggest future research on accessible remote visual arts engagement to consult guidance from this work, and further develop support for social interactions of blind patrons for them to feel immersed remotely. For example, future research could explore external hardware pieces that can adaptively and automatically provide tactile experiences, such as Force Feedback Tablet (F2T) [43,97] and Graphical Braille Display [47]), which could potentially be adopted for remote experiences for blind people. Moreover, future remote art accessing tools could also include features for customizing non-visual presentations based on blind users' comprehension goals, preferred art vocabularies, visual experiences, and so on (as suggested in Section 6).…”

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Understanding Visual Arts Experiences of Blind People

Li,

Zhang,

Bandukda

et al. 2023

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Visual arts play an important role in cultural life and provide access to social heritage and self-enrichment, but most visual arts are inaccessible to blind people. Researchers have explored different ways to enhance blind people's access to visual arts (e.g., audio descriptions, tactile graphics). However, how blind people adopt these methods remains unknown. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 blind visual arts patrons to understand how they engage with visual artwork and the factors that influence their adoption of visual arts access methods. We further examined interview insights in a follow-up survey (N=220). We present: 1) current practices and challenges of accessing visual artwork in-person and online (e.g., Zoom tour), 2) motivation and cognition of perceiving visual arts (e.g., imagination), and 3) implications for designing visual arts access methods. Overall, our findings provide a roadmap for technology-based support for blind people's visual arts experiences.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in accessibility.

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“…As such, new techniques for the creation of accessible graphics is a significant area of research. Key areas of research include new approaches to 3D-printed tactile models [7,18,25,46,51], haptic feedback [11,14,38,39,50], robotic systems [22], touch-triggered auditory feedback [10,42,43], and automated tactile generation [9,33,48,54], such as utilising online mapping systems [17,49,55].…”

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Technology Developments in Touch-Based Accessible Graphics: A Systematic Review of Research 2010-2020

Butler

Holloway

Reinders

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper presents a systematic literature review of 292 publications from 97 unique venues on touch-based graphics for people who are blind or have low vision, from 2010 to mid-2020. It is the first review of its kind on touch-based accessible graphics. It is timely because it allows us to assess the impact of new technologies such as commodity 3D printing and low-cost electronics on the production and presentation of accessible graphics. As expected our review shows an increase in publications from 2014 that we can attribute to these developments. It also reveals the need to: broaden application areas, especially to the workplace; broaden end-user participation throughout the full design process; and conduct more in situ evaluation. This work is linked to an online living resource to be shared with the wider community. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Accessibility.

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Towards Haptic Surface Devices with Force Feedback for Visually Impaired People

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

Integrating Wearable Haptics and Obstacle Avoidance for the Visually Impaired in Indoor Navigation: A User-Centered Approach

Integrating Wearable Haptics and Obstacle Avoidance for the Visually Impaired in Indoor Navigation: A User-Centered Approach

Understanding Visual Arts Experiences of Blind People

Technology Developments in Touch-Based Accessible Graphics: A Systematic Review of Research 2010-2020

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