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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS
Transactions ID Number: 89-309
Full Name: Miguel Ángel Torres Gil
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: El Sol 56, El Rosario 38290 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Country: SPAIN
Tel: 636644635
Tel prefix: +34
Fax: + 34 922 319397
E-mail address: mtorresg@ull.es
Other E-mails: miguel.torres@gmail.com
Title of the Paper: Applications of Virtual Reality for Visually Impaired People
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Miguel Ángel Torres Gil, Oscar Casanova González, Jose Luis González Mora
Email addresses of all the authors: mtorresg@ull.es, ocasano@ull.es, jlgonzal@ull.es
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: This paper describes in detail the development and applications of a Virtual Reality Simulator for Visually Impaired People. It makes an auditory representation of the virtual environment, rendering the virtual world entirely through the hearing. The simulator has these main purposes: validation of auditory representation techniques, 3d sensor emulation for environment recognition and hardware integration, training of visually impaired users with these new auditory representation, and acoustic perception experiments aimed to improve the auditory rendering. The interaction with the simulator is made by a 3d tracking system to locate user's head orientation and position. This means the user interaction is as natural as possible, all performed by just "walking through" the environment, and at the same time, the user perceives the environment through acoustic information.
Keywords: Virtual reality, visually impaired, spatial sound, electromagnetic position tracker
EXTENSION of the file: .pdf
Special (Invited) Session: Virtual Reality Simulator for Sonification Studies
Organizer of the Session: 697-332
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