What's around me? Spatialized audio augmented reality for blind users with a smartphone

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 104 LNICST, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-62

  Blum, Jeffrey R ^a   Bouchard, Mathieu ^a   Cooperstock, Jeremy R ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

audio augmented reality; blind navigation; GPS; smartphone; spatialized audio

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; AUDIO AUGMENTED REALITY; BLIND NAVIGATION; BLIND USERS; DATA SOURCE; DEPLOYABLE SYSTEMS; IN-SITU; INTERFACE DESIGNS; NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY; POINT OF INTEREST; QUALITATIVE FEEDBACK; SAFETY CONCERNS; SENSORY SUBSTITUTION; SPATIALIZED AUDIO; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; URBAN AREAS; USER REQUIREMENTS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SIGNAL ENCODING;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84869594109     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30973-1_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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