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Comparison of Object-Based Three-Dimensional Sound and Ambient Sound for Straight Walking

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Advances in Industrial Design (AHFE 2020)

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At present, visually impaired people have difficulty using mobility support facilities due to their dependence on the surrounding environment, such as sound and snowfall. In addition, people who later became visually impaired may find it difficult to use these facilities. The current study aimed to develop an easy-to-use walking guidance system that uses three-dimensional (3D) sounds, regardless of the surrounding environment, and examined the characteristics of the guidance sounds produced by the 3D sounds. We implemented this system using a head-mounted display capable of generating three-dimensional sound. Participants were asked to walk in a visually restricted environment to either a real guidance sound or a 3D guidance sound with three types of ambient sounds, and their walking trajectory was evaluated. As a result, we found that the 3D guidance sound showed the opposite tendency to deflect from the ambient sound. However, the guidance accuracy of the 3D guidance sound was similar to that of the real guidance sound.

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  1. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan

    Keiichi Muramatsu, Shigekimi Tsukada, Kazunori Kaede & Keiichi Watanuki

  2. Advanced Institute of Innovative Technology, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan

    Keiichi Muramatsu, Kazunori Kaede & Keiichi Watanuki

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  1. Dipartimento di Architettura, Universitàdegli Studi G.d’Annunzio”, Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico

  2. Department of Industrial Design, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    Cliff Sungsoo Shin

  3. University of Notre Dame, Indiana, IN, USA

    Scott Shim

  4. System Design and Management, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Shuichi Fukuda

  5. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Gianni Montagna

  6. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Cristina Carvalho

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Muramatsu, K., Tsukada, S., Kaede, K., Watanuki, K. (2020). Comparison of Object-Based Three-Dimensional Sound and Ambient Sound for Straight Walking. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Shin, C., Shim, S., Fukuda, S., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51194-4_128

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