HOMERE: a Multimodal System for Visually Impaired People to Explore Virtual Environments

Authors:
Anatole Lécuyer;Pascal Mobuchon;Christine Mégard;Jérôme Perret;Claude Andriot;Jean-Pierre Colinot
Affiliations:
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Venue:
VR '03 Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality 2003
Year:
2003

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Abstract

This paper describes the HOMERE system: amultimodal system dedicated to visually impaired peopleto explore and navigate inside virtual environments. Thesystem addresses three main applications: the preparationto the visit of an existing site, the training for the use ofthe blind cane, and the ludic exploration of virtualworlds.The HOMERE system provides the user with differentsensations when navigating inside a virtual world: a forcefeedback corresponding to the manipulation of a virtualblind cane, a thermal feedback corresponding to thesimulation of a virtual sun, and an auditory feedback inspatialized conditions corresponding to the ambientatmosphere and specific events in the simulation. A visualfeedback of the scene is also provided to enable sightedpeople to follow the navigation of the main user.HOMERE has been tested by several visually impairedpeople who were all confident about the potential of thisprototype.