Early intervention in visually impaired children

Fazzi, Elisa; Signorini, Sabrina; Bova, Stefania Maria; Ondei, P.; Bianchi, P. E.

doi:10.1016/j.ics.2005.05.200

Cited by 37 publications

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“…We investigated three types of light source for these prototypes: Philips Hue 1 , LIFX 2 and an Arduino-based prototype using LED strips 3 . The Arduino system gives the greatest control over the light source as updates happen immediately and every LED is individually controllable.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Adapted lighting can also stimulate vision, which encourages children to use their sight. This is important because it can improve vision [3,13] and encourages them to explore surroundings [7]. Many assistive technologies for visually impaired people deliberately avoid placing demands on sight, but doing so can be beneficial.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Developmental importance means VI children should be encouraged to use remaining vision as much as possible [3,7,13]. As well as supporting overall development, early use of sight can also improve visual function.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As well as supporting overall development, early use of sight can also improve visual function. Several early intervention programs for VI children found their sight improved significantly more than their untreated peers did [3,13].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Automatically Adapting Home Lighting to Assist Visually Impaired Children

Freeman

Wilson

Brewster

2016

Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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For visually impaired children, activities like finding everyday items, locating favourite toys and moving around the home can be challenging. Assisting them during these activities is important because it promotes independence and encourages them to use and develop their remaining visual function. We describe our work towards a system that adapts the lighting conditions at home to help visually impaired children with everyday tasks. We discuss scenarios that show how they may benefit from adaptive lighting, report on our progress and describe our planned future work and evaluation.

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Section: Current Progressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Automatically Adapting Home Lighting to Assist Visually Impaired Children

Freeman

Wilson

Brewster

2016

Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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“…Changing the lighting may also stimulate vision and encourage children to use their residual sight more. This is important because it helps develop their visual skills [2].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a multimodal adaptive lighting system for visually impaired children

Freeman

Wilson

Brewster

2016

Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

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Visually impaired children often have difficulty with everyday activities like locating items, e.g. favourite toys, and moving safely around the home. It is important to assist them during activities like these because it can promote independence from adults and helps to develop skills. Our demonstration shows our work towards a multimodal sensing and output system that adapts the lighting conditions at home to help visually impaired children with such tasks.

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