Haptic exploration of buildings for visually impaired persons: Show me the map

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Authors

POKLUDA Luděk SOCHOR Jiří

Year of publication 2006
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference 3rd International Conference on Enactive Interfaces: ENACTIVE / 06 ENACTION & COMPLEXITY
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Field Informatics
Keywords Haptics;Virtual Reality;Visually Impaired;Navigation;Buildings;Phantom
Description This paper describes the technique of haptically rendered map of a building which is used for the navigation of visually impaired peoples. The map is created from kineasthetic icons and was rendered on PHANToM device.
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