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A Basic Inspection of Wall-Climbing Support System for the Visually Challenged

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2010)

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Wall climbing became more and more popular sports among the visually challenged in these days. They can play and enjoy it together with sighted people without any additional rules. However, severely visually impaired climbers still have a problem. That is a difficulty to know where the climbing hold after next one is in advance. A visually impaired climber champion pointed out that to know the positions of holds of two or three steps ahead is very important and that information will be useful to make a strategy. To solve that problem, a basic inspection of support method is conducted. Web camera, a pair of ultra sonic devices and a bone conduction headphone with Bluetooth technology are tested. The results of these tests and comments by climbers suggested that to make a system which support bouldering using general-purpose equipments is available for the visually challenged climbers.

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  1. Tsukuba University of Technology, Japan

    Makoto Kobayashi

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  1. Makoto Kobayashi
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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 49, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study,, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

  4. University of San Francisco The Universal Math Access Lab, 281 Masonic, 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

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Kobayashi, M. (2010). A Basic Inspection of Wall-Climbing Support System for the Visually Challenged. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6180. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14100-3_49

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