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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE
Transactions ID Number: 89-346
Full Name: Antonio Rodríguez-Hernández
Position: Researcher
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Dept. de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Laguna Campus Ciencias de la Salud, s/n 38071 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Country: SPAIN
Tel: 922 67 93 52
Tel prefix: + 34
Fax: 922 31 93 97
E-mail address: afrguez@ull.es
Other E-mails: cmodrono@ull.es, afrguez@gmail.com, eburunat@ull.es, cristian.mod@gmail.com
Title of the Paper: Sensory Substitution for Visually Disabled People: Computer Solutions
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Antonio Francisco Rodríguez-Hernández, Carlos Merino, Oscar Casanova, Cristián Modrono, Miguel Ángel Torres, Raquel Montserrat, Gorka Navarrete, Enrique Burunat and José Luis González-Mora
Email addresses of all the authors: afrguez@ull.es, cmerino@ull.es, ocasano@ull.es, cmodrono@ull.es, mtorresg@ull.es, rakelmonserrat@gmail.com, gnavarga@ull.es, eburunat@ull.es, jlgonzal@ull.es
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Sensory substitution can be defined as a technical-scientific discipline which aims to provide sensory disabled people with information they cannot acquire from the disabled sense through their intact senses. We present here our team's work in this R+D line for providing blind and severe visually impaired people with real time spatial and text environmental information through sounds. The objective is to model the real environment as a virtual space where the object's surface appears as if covered by small sound sources, which emit very locatable sounds in a continuous and near simultaneous way. It is based on the hypothesis that the brain, when provided with this highly rich spatial information, will generate a kind of visual-like perception of the surrounding world. In this paper we describe our approach to this field and the main results obtained, which have practical consequences in the field of sensory rehabilitation as well as on the theory of perception.
Keywords: Sensory substitution, Blindness, Sonification, HRTF, Computer vision, Brain plasticity
EXTENSION of the file: .doc
Special (Invited) Session: Computer solutions on sensory substitution for sensory disabled people
Organizer of the Session: 697-367
How Did you learn about congress: Jack Loomis (loomis@psych.ucsb.edu), Sile O'Modhrain (sile@qub.ac.uk)
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