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Development of edutainment system for visually impaired people with 3-D virtual auditory display| old_uid | 2313 |
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| title | Development of edutainment system for visually impaired people with 3-D virtual auditory display |
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| start_date | 2007/02/27 |
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| schedule | 14h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | To those who are blind or visually impaired, it is extremely important to make the most of auditory and tactile perception as an alternative to the lost or weakened sense of sight. These senses can provide them with many cues to recognize objects'positions, configurations, sizes, velocity, and other crucial pieces of spatial and temporal information. The recent advancement of virtual auditory systems (VAD) will prove to be very useful for the education and training in developing the ability to gain spatial information through alternative paths of recognition. Moreover, the idea of VAD systems could also be applied to daily entertainment equipment, i.e. computer games which entertain players only with sounds may be developed on VAD. In this study, therefore, we attempted to develop an "edutainment" system with which visually impaired children can improve their capability of space recognition by playing a game as application with software VAD. In the presentation, the system overview is introduced and its effects on several abilities are discussed. |
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| responsibles | Paroubek, Turner |
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