Augmented and virtual reality experiences present significant barriers for disabled people,
making it challenging to fully engage with immersive platforms. Whilst researchers have …

Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) hold significant potential to transform how we
communicate, collaborate, and interact with others. However, there has been a lack of work …

Research in augmented and virtual reality in congregation with the Internet of Things has
opened many avenues in diagnosing and treating neurological disorders. Augmented reality …

One-Sixth of the world population is suffering from vision impairment, as per WHO's report. In
the past decades, many efforts have been done in develo** several devices to provide …

Upon publication almost 15 years ago, the first edition almost instantly became a trusted
reference, setting the stage for the coming decade, in which the explosion in research and …

Tactile relief maps are used by visually impaired people to acquire mental representation of
space, but they retain important limitations (limited amount of information, braille text, etc.) …

Navigation within a closed environment requires analysis of a variety of acoustic cues, a task
that is well developed in many visually impaired individuals, and for which sighted …

Wayfinding is a critical but challenging task for people who have low vision, a visual
impairment that falls short of blindness. Prior wayfinding systems for people with visual …

In this paper, we introduce a real-time face recognition (and announcement) system targeted
at aiding the blind and low-vision people. The system uses a Microsoft Kinect sensor as a …

When preparing to visit new locations, sighted people often look at maps to build an a priori
mental representation of the environment as a sequence of step-by-step actions and points …