[HTML][HTML] Review of navigation assistive tools and technologies for the visually impaired

MD Messaoudi, BAJ Menelas, H Mcheick - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The visually impaired suffer greatly while moving from one place to another. They face
challenges in going outdoors and in protecting themselves from moving and stationary …

Audio–visual particle flow smc-phd filtering for multi-speaker tracking

Y Liu, V Kılıç, J Guan, W Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sequential Monte Carlo probability hypothesis density (SMC-PHD) filtering is a popular
method used recently for audio-visual (AV) multi-speaker tracking. However, due to the …

The Effectiveness of UWB-Based Indoor Positioning Systems for the Navigation of Visually Impaired Individuals

M Rosiak, M Kawulok, M Maćkowski - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
UWB has been in existence for several years, but it was only a few years ago that it
transitioned from a specialized niche to more mainstream applications. Recent market data …

Toward an augmented shoe for preventing falls related to physical conditions of the soil

MJD Otis, BAJ Menelas - 2012 IEEE International Conference …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is known that the physical conditions of an environment might represent an important risk
of falling. In this paper, we report an ongoing project toward the creation of intelligent clothes …

Teleoperated path following and trajectory tracking of unmanned vehicles using spatial auditory guidance system

A Vasilijevic, K Jambrosic, Z Vukic - Applied acoustics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The majority of Human–Machine Interfaces (HMIs) designed for the teleoperation of
unmanned vehicles only present information visually. Frequent overloading of the operator's …

Accessibility of shooting task for blind and visually impaired: A sonification method comparison

F Apavou, TB Bouchara, P Bourdot - 29th International Conference on …, 2024 - hal.science
Access to ordinary sports clubs or video games is limited for blind and visually impaired
people (BVI) which reduces mixed ability practices and social inclusion. To adapt shooting …

Design of a serious game for learning vibrotactile messages

BAJ Menelas, MJD Otis - 2012 IEEE International Workshop on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To prevent accidental falls, we have designed an augmented shoe aiming at assisting a
user when walking. For this, the risk level (low, medium, high and very high) represented by …

From Silence to Dialogue: Boosting Collocated Social Interactions with Technology

HU Genç, A Coşkun - Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Social interactions play a crucial role in promoting personal development, mental health,
and overall well-being. Despite the importance of collocated social interactions, HCI …

[HTML][HTML] Use of haptics to promote learning outcomes in serious games

BAJ Menelas, RS Benaoudia - Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2017 - mdpi.com
Integration of haptics in Serious Games (SGs) remains limited compared to vision and audio.
Many works seem to limit haptic interactions to the mimicking of real life feelings. Here, we …

Validity of haptic cues and its effect on priming visual spatial attention

JJ Young, HZ Tan, R Gray - 11th Symposium on Haptic …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study investigated cross-modal links in attention between haptics and vision. A visual
change-detection task was used as a measure of visual attention. Haptic taps on the back …