Vision-deprived virtual navigation patterns using depth cues &amp; the effect of extended sensory range

Maidenbaum, Shachar; Chebat, Daniel-Robert; Levy-Tzedek, Shelly; Amedi, Amir

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“…Status: Development work largely complete with the EyeCane which offers distance information, and the EyeMusic which offers whole scene location, shape and color information [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. The iterative user-centered feedback is still ongoing until the achievement of clear behavioral benchmarks.…”

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“…E.g. demonstrating for some aspects of simple virtual environments (such as virtual navigation [3,4], object detection and environment recognition). Other projects, with blind users such as mouse & touch screen usage or more complex virtual environments are still underway.…”

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“…Status: Several experiments completed (such as exploring navigation patterns in virtual environments with different assistive technology [3,4]). Others are still being planned (open for discussion).…”

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“…including 3 journal research papers, a high-impact review in NBR and 5 conference publications as lead author and several more as a contributing author (see references [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] and appendix 3 for some examples).…”

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Practical Sensory Substitution In Real And Virtual Worlds

Maidenbaum

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The main proposition behind this work is that current technology and recent results allow us to create new Sensory Substitution Devices which can break the barriers limiting their practical adoption, significantly increase the accessibility of computerized information and graphical virtual environments and open the door to fascinating possibilities in creating new augmented senses and exploring the neural basis of using them.

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“…Estudos mostram que a falta de um sentido (por exemplo, a visão) desenvolve habilidades e percepções amplificadas em outros sentidos, sendo que pessoas cegas desenvolvem estratégias de navegação diferentes de pessoas "videntes" 5 . Estas estratégias se mostram até mesmo conflitantes, como por exemplo um cego que caminha pela calçada próximo à parede, por utilizá-la como objeto de referência para o seu mapeamento do espaço (MAIDENBAUM et al, 2014).…”

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Este trabalho é dedicado a minha família. Em especial, à minha mãe, meus avós, tios e tias, por me mostrarem o que é o amor incondicional. AGRADECIMENTOSAgradeço a todos que colabaram, diretamente ou indiretamente, no meio caminho acadêmico e profissional para chegar até aqui. Em especial: À Renata Pontin, minha orientadora, por sempre ser tão bondosa, paciente e atenciosa durante o desenvolvimento deste trabalho. E ao Thiago Pardo, orientador de iniciação científica na graduação, por ter me apresentado o caminho da pesquisa científica. À Lianna Duarte, André Salgado e Flávia Santos, pelo suporte e ajuda crucial na reta final.Ao Sergio Campos, o "culpado" por dar a motivação inicial para este trabalho de mestrado, e a Marcio Galli e Fabrício Zuardi, por iniciarem a minha carreira profissional. À minha mãe e a minha família, por sempre acreditarem em mim e me apoiarem. À Mariela Mayumi, por aguentar as minhas crises e dilemas.Às amigas que também enfrentam ou já enfrentaram este trabalho árduo: Lívia Bueno, Letícia Portella, Ariane Sasso, Mariana Bunoro; pela empatia com esse sofrimento e por sempre compartilharem conselhos e motivação.Ao Matt, por provar por A + B que os canadenses são tão legais quanto todos falam; e ao Frank e Jared, por mostrar que os americanos também são. E, principalmente, aos meus amigos do coração, que estão presentes nos melhores momentos da minha vida, e sempre me trazem alegria e fazem tudo valer a pena: Theodoro,

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Perception of Graphical Virtual Environments by Blind Users via Sensory Substitution

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Graphical virtual environments are currently far from accessible to blind users as their content is mostly visual. This is especially unfortunate as these environments hold great potential for this population for purposes such as safe orientation, education, and entertainment. Previous tools have increased accessibility but there is still a long way to go. Visual-to-audio Sensory-Substitution-Devices (SSDs) can increase accessibility generically by sonifying on-screen content regardless of the specific environment and offer increased accessibility without the use of expensive dedicated peripherals like electrode/vibrator arrays. Using SSDs virtually utilizes similar skills as when using them in the real world, enabling both training on the device and training on environments virtually before real-world visits. This could enable more complex, standardized and autonomous SSD training and new insights into multisensory interaction and the visually-deprived brain. However, whether congenitally blind users, who have never experienced virtual environments, will be able to use this information for successful perception and interaction within them is currently unclear.We tested this using the EyeMusic SSD, which conveys whole-scene visual information, to perform virtual tasks otherwise impossible without vision. Congenitally blind users had to navigate virtual environments and find doors, differentiate between them based on their features (Experiment1:task1) and surroundings (Experiment1:task2) and walk through them; these tasks were accomplished with a 95% and 97% success rate, respectively. We further explored the reactions of congenitally blind users during their first interaction with a more complex virtual environment than in the previous tasks–walking down a virtual street, recognizing different features of houses and trees, navigating to cross-walks, etc. Users reacted enthusiastically and reported feeling immersed within the environment. They highlighted the potential usefulness of such environments for understanding what visual scenes are supposed to look like and their potential for complex training and suggested many future environments they wished to experience.

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Vision-deprived virtual navigation patterns using depth cues & the effect of extended sensory range

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Practical Sensory Substitution In Real And Virtual Worlds

Practical Sensory Substitution In Real And Virtual Worlds

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Perception of Graphical Virtual Environments by Blind Users via Sensory Substitution

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