This chapter looks at a range of auditory display and sonification applications that have
tackled the problem of monitoring real-time data streams and concludes with some …

For people who suffer from a visual impairment, navigating in an unknown environment
represents a considerable challenge. To help them develop spatial orientation and mobility …

Over the last years, works related to accessible technologies have increased both in number
and in quality. This work presents a series of articles which explore different trends in the …

The authors use 3D sound to help navigate an immersive virtual environment and report
results of user tests obtained with a game-like application. The results show that auditory …

3D virtual environments are increasingly used for education, business and recreation but
are often inaccessible to users who are visually impaired, effectively creating a digital divide …

The design of in-vehicle navigation systems fails to take into account the social nature of
driving and automobile navigation. In this paper, we consider navigation as a social activity …

When moving through space, we encode multiple sensory cues that guide our orientation
through the environment. The integration between visual and self-motion cues is known to …

Many virtual locomotion interfaces allowing users to move in virtual reality have been built
and evaluated, such as redirected walking (RDW), walking-in-place (WIP), and joystick …

An example apparatus for providing an audible signal representative of an environment
comprises a sensor system, and an audio system providing an audible signal to a person …

Spatial auditory cues are important for many tasks in immersive virtual environments,
especially guidance tasks. However, due to the limited fidelity of spatial sounds rendered by …