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Assessment of Tactile Languages as Navigation Aid in 3D Environments

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Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications (EuroHaptics 2014)

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In this paper we present the design and evaluate alternative tactile vocabularies to support navigation in 3D environments. We have focused on the tactile communication expressiveness by applying a prefixation approach in the construction of the tactile icons. We conducted user experiments to analyze the effects of both prefixation and the use of tactile sequences on the user’s performance in a navigation task. Results show that, even if tactile sequences are more difficult to process during the navigation task, the prefixed patterns were easier to learn in all assessed vocabularies.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to the people that volunteered for the tests. We also acknowledge CAPES, CNPq-Brazil (305071/2012-2) and AES Sul for the financial support.

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  1. Instituto de Informática (INF), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, PO. Box 15064, CEP 91501-970, Brazil

    Victor Adriel de J. Oliveira & Anderson Maciel

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de J. Oliveira, V.A., Maciel, A. (2014). Assessment of Tactile Languages as Navigation Aid in 3D Environments. In: Auvray, M., Duriez, C. (eds) Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8619. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44196-1_14

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