An insight into smartphone-based assistive solutions for visually impaired and blind people: issues, challenges and opportunities

A Khan, S Khusro - Universal Access in the Information Society, 2021 - Springer
Blind people are confronting a number of challenges in performing activities of daily life such
as reading labels on a product, identification of currency notes, exploring unknown spaces …

Simulating haptic feedback using vision: A survey of research and applications of pseudo-haptic feedback

A Lécuyer - Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 2009 - direct.mit.edu
This paper presents a survey of the main results obtained in the field of “pseudo-haptic
feedback”: a technique meant to simulate haptic sensations in virtual environments using …

Comparing comprehension of a long text read in print book and on Kindle: Where in the text and when in the story?

A Mangen, G Olivier, JL Velay - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Digital reading devices such as Kindle differ from paper books with respect to the kinesthetic
and tactile feedback provided to the reader, but the role of these features in reading is rarely …

[引用][C] In touch with the future: The sense of touch from cognitive neuroscience to virtual reality

A Gallace - 2014 - books.google.com
Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Digitizing literacy: Reflections on the haptics of writing

A Mangen, JL Velay - Advances in haptics, 2010 - books.google.com
Writing is a complex cognitive process relying on intricate perceptual-sensorimotor
combinations. The process and skill of writing is studied on several levels and in many …

Haptics in education: Exploring an untapped sensory modality

J Minogue, MG Jones - Review of educational research, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
As human beings, we can interact with our environment through the sense of touch, which
helps us to build an understanding of objects and events. The implications of touch for …

[图书][B] Psychology of touch and blindness

MA Heller, E Gentaz - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
This book reviews the considerable body of research that has been done to evaluate the
touch skills of blind people. With an emphasis on cognitive and neuroscientific approaches …

Accessible interactive maps for visually impaired users

J Ducasse, AM Brock, C Jouffrais - Mobility of Visually Impaired People …, 2018 - Springer
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 …

The visuo-haptic and haptic exploration of letters increases the kindergarten-children's understanding of the alphabetic principle

F Bara, E Gentaz, P Colé, L Sprenger-Charolles - Cognitive development, 2004 - Elsevier
This study examined the effect of incorporating a visuo-haptic and haptic (tactual-
kinaesthetic) exploration of letters in a training designed to develop phonemic awareness …

The future of sensory substitution, addition, and expansion via haptic devices

DM Eagleman, MV Perrotta - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Haptic devices use the sense of touch to transmit information to the nervous system. As an
example, a sound-to-touch device processes auditory information and sends it to the brain …