In virtual environments, spatial information is communicated visually. This prevents people
with visual impairment (PVI) from accessing such spaces. In this article, we investigate …

Echolocation enables people with impaired or no vision to comprehend the surrounding
spatial information through the reflected sound. However, this technique often requires …

Successful navigation involves finding the way, planning routes, and avoiding collisions.
Whilst previous research has shown that people can navigate using non-visual cues, it is not …

Cognitive radar is a rapidly developing area of research with many opportunities for
innovation. A significant obstacle to development in this discipline is the absence of a …

Some people who are blind have trained themselves in echolocation using mouth clicks.
Here, we provide the first report of psychophysical and clicking data during echolocation of …

People use sensory, in particular visual, information to guide actions such as walking
around obstacles, grasping or reaching. However, it is presently unclear how malleable the …

In bats it has been shown that they adjust their emissions to situational demands. Here we
report similar findings for human echolocation. We asked eight blind expert echolocators to …

As virtual environments—in the form of videogames and augmented and virtual reality
experiences—become more popular, it is important to ensure that they are accessible to all …

Active echolocation of sighted humans using predefined synthetic and self-emitted sounds,
as habitually used by blind individuals, was investigated. Using virtual acoustics, distance …

Ambient sound can mask acoustic signals. The current study addressed how echolocation in
people is affected by masking sound, and the role played by type of sound and spatial (ie …