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.
Related projects:	Human-computer interaction, dialog systems and assistive technologies