Research
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Prof. Alistair Gale
Applied Vision Research Centre (AVRC), Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3UZ, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 (0)1509 635703
Fax: +44 (0)1509 635709
Email: a.g.gale@lboro.ac.uk
Web: www.lboro.ac.uk/
Current & recent projects
COGAN (Communication by Gaze Interaction)
COGAIN integrates cutting-edge expertise on interface technologies for the benefit of users with disabilities. The network aims to gather Europe's leading expertise in eye tracking integration with computers in a research project on assistive technologies for citizens with motor impairments. Through the integration of research activities, the network will develop new technologies and systems, improve existing gaze-based interaction techniques, and facilitate the implementation of systems for everyday communication.
Project start date: 09/2004
Project end date: 08/2009
ART (Attention Responsive Technology)
Co-worker(s): Fangmin Shi; Kevin Purdy
The ART project aims to facilitate interaction with an environment by developing a system which responds to users' gaze. Through innovative research and design coupled with a user-focused approach the ART system will enable interaction with the environment by responding appropriately to the user's 'attention'. 'Attention' is anticipated through means of eye-tracking technology and elements of the environment can subsequently be actuated and controlled by numerous ICT, in-built or aftermarket automated devices. Consequently, the ART development will be particularly valuable for those with impaired mobility, or in situations where conventional controls are problematic or undesirable.
Project start date: 2004
Project end date: 2007
Last updated: 03/01/2008
Elaine Gerber
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), 11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300, New
York, New York 10001, United States of America.
Tel: +1 212 502 7644
Fax: +1 212 502 7773
Email: gerber@afb.net
Web: www.afb.org
Current & recent projects
Livable Communities
The Livable Communities project is an ongoing effort to document the impact of the environment on disability. The project identifies criteria that people who are blind or visually impaired in the United States use to rate livable communities, and it highlights the role of advocacy in creating enabling environments.
Project start date: 2003
Project end date: ongoing
Active Living Research
Co-worker(s): Corinne Kirchner
The goal of American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Active Living Research has been to learn more about the relationship between the environment—built, natural, and attitudinal—and access to physical activity and social participation. Specifically, the Active Living Research study is interested in what barriers or facilitators people face when they navigate their community using assistive mobility technologies (AMTs). AFB included people who use four different types of AMTs: manual wheelchairs, motorized wheelchairs, dog guides, and long canes.
Project start date: 12/2004
Project end date: 07/2006
Last updated: 03/01/2008
Prof. Roberta Gilchrist
The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 (0) 118 987 5123
Email: r.l.gilchrist@reading.ac.uk
Web: www.reading.ac.uk/
Current & recent projects
Inclusive, Accessible, Archaeology
Co-worker(s): Tim Phillips, Iain Hewitt
This project addresses the dual issues of disability and transferable skills in the teaching of archaeological fieldwork. It will increase awareness of disability issues in Archaeology and improve the integration of disability in fieldwork teaching. The emphasis is on the development of a self-assessment tool kit for physical and psychological abilities in fieldwork. This tool will increase students' awareness of their acquisition of transferable skills and promote careers management skills.
For more information about the project go to
http://www.hca.heacademy.ac.uk/access-archaeology/inclusive_accessible/
Project start date: 2005
Project end date: 2007
Last updated: 03/01/2008
Dr John Gill
Scientific Research Unit, Royal National Institute of Blind People, 105 Judd
Street, London WC1H 9NE, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 20 7391 2244
Fax: +44 20 7391 2318
Email: john.gill@rnib.org.uk
Web: www.tiresias.org/sru.htm
Publications
Current and recent projects
- Development of guidelines for accessibility of information and communication technology systems;
- Accessibility of smart card and biometric systems for use by disabled and elderly people;
- Design of non-visual interfaces;
- Visually impaired users’ needs in transport;
- Labelling and packaging of medicine for use by blind people.
Last updated: 23/10/2007
Larry R. Goldberg
WGBH National Center for Accessible Media, One Guest Street
Boston, MA 02135, United States of America.
Tel: +1 617 300 3400
Fax: +1 617 300 1035
Email: http://ncam.wgbh.org/about/contactstaff.html
Web: http://ncam.wgbh.org/
Current & recent projects
Making In-Flight Communications and Entertainment Accessible
Co-worker(s): Caesar Eghtesadi; Brad Botkin
The aim of the project is to make airline entertainment, communications and information accessible to flyers with sensory disabilities. Solutions and resulting recommendations will include the integration of captioning for video and audio, descriptive narration for visual images and audio navigation for system menus and interface design. Partners for this project are the World Airline Entertainment Association, Panasonic Avionics Corporation, and the National Center on Accessible Transportation at Oregon State University.
Project start date: 10/2005
Project end date: 09/2008
Last updated: 03/01/2008
Prof. Reginald G. Golledge
University of California, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, California
93106, United States of America.
Tel: +1 805 893 2731
Fax: +1 805 893 3146
Email: golledge@geog.ucsb.edu
Web: http://geog.ucsb.edu/
Publications
Current & recent projects
Haptic Soundcapes
Co-worker(s): Dan Jacobson; Matt Rice; David Jones; Srivatsan Pallavaram; Andrea Nuernberger; Pete Hayword The aim of this research project is to develop and evaluate haptic soundscapes. This allows people with little or no vision to interact with maps, diagrams and graphs displayed via dissemination media, such as the World Wide Web, through sound, touch and force feedback. Although of principal utility for people with severe visual impairments, it is anticipated that this interface will allow informative educational resources for children and people with learning difficulties to be developed and accessed through the Internet. The research project offers a simple, yet innovative solution to accessing spatial data without the need for vision.
Ongoing
Remote Infrared Audible Signage (RIAS)
Co-worker(s): Jim Marston (Project Director)
This project examines the use of RIAS to assist vision impaired travelers to wayfind in complex environments, particularly in facilitating mode transfers. A transmitter continuously emits an infrared beam that can be picked up with a small hand-held receiver. The user scans the environment with the receiver and intercepts the infrared beam which contains a human- voice informational message that is heard through the receiver's speaker. In this way, a blind person can learn about what is in the environment and the direction to that location, much as signs and vision allow for other people.
Ongoing
Personal Guidance System (PGS)
Co-worker(s): Jack Loomis; Roberta Klatzky; Jim Marston;
Jerry Tietz
This project is concerned with developing and evaluating a GPS-based navigation system for visually impaired people. The concept began in 1985 with a concept paper by Jack Loomis. PGS was first demonstrated in 1993 and since then several versions of the PGS have been developed. Current research and development now focuses on the user interface, especially the display component. The idea is to have the visually impaired traveler control the system using speech commands picked up by a microphone.
Ongoing
Last updated: 03/01/2008
José Luis González-Mora
Neurochemistry and Neuroimaging Group, Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Email: jlgonzal@ull.es
Web: www.iac.es/
Current & recent projects
Virtual Acoustic Space
Project working on the percepcion of the space using sounds only. The main goal is to create for the individual the illusion that perceived objects are covered by small sound sources emitting in a particular and sustained way. Therefore, a virtual acoustic world is generated, where the physical objects emit sounds from all the coordinates of its surface. Two technological pillars are the basis of this project: machine vision and sound spatialization. Information on the coordinates ocupied by objects is obtained from the images captured by two microcameras placed at eye level (artificial vision) and it is translated in a sum of sounds that are sent, at real time, to the user through headphones. These sounds are processed (spatialization) in such a way that the individual perceives that they come from those coordinates previously detected.
Therefore, a visual three-dimension image is transformed in an acustic three-dimension image.
Project start date: 1999
Project end date: ongoing
Last updated: 03/01/2008
Dr Jõrgen Gustafsson
Vision Enabling laboratory, School of Pure and Applied Natural Sciences, Kalmar University, Västergård, SE-39182 Kalmar
Tel: +46 04 80 446 398
Fax: +46 04 80 446 244
Email:
jorgen.o.gustafsson@hik.se
Web: www.hik.se/english/
Publications
Vision Enabling
Research and development program that
aims to develop: 1)better methods for studying the optics of the eye; 2)optical and low vision teaching aids for improved visual function; and 3)better methods for measuring residual vision. The focus of our research is predominantly on how visually impaired people, who have lost their central vision (central visual field loss), can utilize remaining vision more effectively through new optical devices and training methods. The aim is to expand both the theoretical and practical understanding of the different components of visual function.
Project start date: 01/01/2007
Project end date: 31/12/2008
Seenior
Project start date: 01/01/2008
Project end date: 31/12/2009
Last updated: 04/01/2008
Last updated: 19.02.2008 © Copyright reserved
