This paper discusses issues of importance to designers of media for visually impaired users.
The paper considers the influence of human factors on the effectiveness of presentation as …

Enabled by the remarkable dexterity of the human hand, specialized haptic exploration is a
hallmark of object perception by touch. Haptic exploration normally takes place in a spatial …

This chapter describes a sensory modality that underlies the most common everyday
activities: maintaining one's posture, scratching an itch, or picking up a spoon. As a topic of …

Tactile maps are commonly used to give visually impaired users access to geographical
representations. Although those relief maps are efficient tools for acquisition of spatial …

Introduction......................................................................................................... 161 General-Purpose
and Special-Purpose Sensory Substitution....................... 163 Theoretical Framework for …

Although smartphones are equipped with accessibility functions, they still pose significant
problems for visually impaired people. Sometimes these functions cannot fulfil the …

With content rapidly moving to the electronic space, access to graphics for individuals with
visual impairments is a growing concern. Recent research has demonstrated the potential …

This study compared the sensory and perceptual abilities of the blind and sighted. The 32
participants were required to perform two tasks: tactile grating orientation discrimination (to …

Many developers wish to capitalize on touch-screen technology for developing aids for the
blind, particularly by incorporating vibrotactile stimulation to convey patterns on their …

Vision loss has severe impacts on physical, social and emotional well-being. The education
of blind children poses issues as many scholar disciplines (eg, geometry, mathematics) are …