Designing an assistive device for the blind based on object localization and augmented auditory reality

ASSETS'08: The 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 263-264

  Dramas, Florian ^a   Oriola, Bernard ^a   Katz, Brian F G ^b   Thorpe, Simon J ^a   Jouffrais, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Design; Experimentation; Human factors; Measurement

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; VISION AIDS;

ASSISTIVE DEVICES; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; BLIND PEOPLES; ELECTRONIC DEVICES; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN FACTORS; IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NEW DEVICES; OBJECT LOCALIZATIONS; SOUND RENDERINGS; SPATIAL LOCATIONS; VISUAL PATTERNS; VISUALLY HANDICAPPED; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

AUGMENTED REALITY;

EID: 62949105375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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