会议专题

A Wearable Navigation Aid for Blind People Using a Vibrotactile Information Transfer System

  In the present paper we describe different possibilities of vibrotactile stimulation of skin receptors for guiding visually impaired people.Different wearable low-budget prototypes were developed by integrating vibration motors as used in mobile phones.Various parameters for vibrotactile stimulation of skin receptors were evaluated.In addition a simple computer game was developed to simulate an environment with obstacles and to obtain the real-time reaction performance of test subjects.The prototypes were tested in a trial with obstacles in which blindfolded test persons were guided via a vibrating system controlled by a second test person.The prototypes were proven to be easy to use while no special training was required.

Visually impaired vibrotactile stimulation skin receptor collision avoidance

Miguel Reyes Adame Jing Yu Knut M(o)ller Edgar Seemann

Institute of Technical Medicine, Furtwangen University VS-Schwenningen, Germany

国际会议

2013 ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering(2013 ICME复合医学工程国际会议)

北京

英文

13-18

2013-05-25(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)