2021
DOI: 10.3390/s21186275
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VES: A Mixed-Reality Development Platform of Navigation Systems for Blind and Visually Impaired

Abstract: Herein, we describe the Virtually Enhanced Senses (VES) system, a novel and highly configurable wireless sensor-actuator network conceived as a development and test-bench platform of navigation systems adapted for blind and visually impaired people. It allows to immerse its users into “walkable” purely virtual or mixed environments with simulated sensors and validate navigation system designs prior to prototype development. The haptic, acoustic, and proprioceptive feedback supports state-of-art sensory substit… Show more

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“…In the following subsections, updated versions of the navigation systems’ test-bench tools Virtually Enhanced Senses (VES) [ 15 ] and VES-PVAS SSD [ 16 ] are briefly presented. Thereafter, the three perceptual and cognitive tests conducted are described.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the following subsections, updated versions of the navigation systems’ test-bench tools Virtually Enhanced Senses (VES) [ 15 ] and VES-PVAS SSD [ 16 ] are briefly presented. Thereafter, the three perceptual and cognitive tests conducted are described.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For many years, the field of health sciences has focused on improving interior navigation methods for people who are blind or have other visual impairments. Real and Araujo (2021) developed a tool for validating navigation instructions and another tool for user training for the PERCEPT system.…”
Section: Indoor Navigation Using Virtual Realitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Heat or trace maps for movement analysis have seen use in other works, e.g. [29]- [33], and can provide useful results. Using the numeric computing platform Matlab [34], the VR recordings, and the event analysis, participants' movement is traced on a VE in planar view, the traces colored blue for independent walking; yellow for guided walking due to a method issue; or red if due to a feedback issue.…”
Section: Registered Guiding Event Parametersmentioning
confidence: 99%