Blind persons navigate in Virtual Reality (VR); Hearing and feeling communicates 'Reality'

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 39, Issue , 1997, Pages 54-59

  Max, Mayer L ^a   Gonzalez, Jesse R ^b  

^a NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY   (United States)

^b Virtual Reality Audio Designer   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; HAPTIC INTERFACES; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUDIO NAVIGATION; HEALTH INFORMATICS; MEDICAL SIMULATIONS; PERFORMANCE REVIEWS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RIVER ENGINEERING; ROBOTIC INTERFACE; SPATIALIZED AUDIO;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GENERAL MEDICAL AIDS; HUMAN; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; SENSORY AIDS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0030625936     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-883-0-54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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