This paper presents the integration of a virtual environment (BlindAid) in an orientation and
mobility rehabilitation program as a training aid for people who are blind. BlindAid allows the …

This study evaluates the impact of using the software program AudioMetro, a tool that
supports the orientation and mobility of people who are blind in the Metro system of …

This paper presents a virtual reality system (the BlindAid) developed for orientation and
mobility training of people who are newly blind. The BlindAid allows users to interact with …

This paper describes a way to incorporate sound into a raster based classified image.
Methods for determining the sound location, amplitude, type and how to create a layer to …

BlindAid, a virtual environment system developed in part for orientation and mobility training
of newly, adventitiously, and congenitally blind persons, allows interaction with different …

People who are blind tend to adopt sequential, route-based strategies for moving around the
world (Golledge et al, 1996). Common strategies take the self as the main frame of …

Most of the spatial information needed by sighted people to construct cognitive maps of
spaces is gathered through the visual channel. Unfortunately, people who are blind lack the …

The inability to navigate independently and interact with the wider world is one of the most
significant handicaps that can be caused by blindness, second only to the inability to …

Visualization of water depth in geographical maps is limited by contour line density and by
human ability to distinguish a subtle difference of the color gradient at a specific map scale …

The newly blind face enormous emotional, cognitive and physical difficulties in the first stage
of rehabilitation. During the traditional orientation and mobility rehabilitation program, the …