Visualization learning for visually impaired people

Authors:
Patrick Salamin;Daniel Thalmann;Frédéric Vexo
Affiliations:
VRLab at EPFL, Switzerland;VRLab at EPFL, Switzerland;VRLab at EPFL, Switzerland
Venue:
Edutainment'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Technologies for e-learning and digital entertainment
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Virtual Environments (VE) are mainly visual experiments that exclude visually impaired people. In this paper we present an application that should allow almost everybody to "see" or at least to perceive 3D shapes. We will first describe the mandatory aspects of such an application, the tests we made and finally conclude by the results we obtained with geometrically basic shapes that are very promising.