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CyARM: Interactive Device for Environment Recognition and Joint Haptic Attention Using Non-visual Modality

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2006)

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We have developed CyARM, a new kind of sensing device especially for visually impaired persons, to assist with mobility and detection of nearby objects. This user interface has unique characteristics of giving visually impaired persons the impression of an “imaginary arm” that extends to existing obstacles. CyARM is also a communication device for constructing “joint haptic attention” between impaired and unimpaired persons watching or feeling the same objects. In other words, this device offers a new methodology for judging the others’ attentions or intentions without using their eye gaze direction. We verified the efficiency and ability of CyARM for environment recognition through experiments and discuss its possibility as a communication device for realizing joint haptic attention.

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  1. Department of Media Architecture, Future University-Hakodate, 116-2 Kamedanakano, Hakodate, 041-8655, Japan

    Tetsuo Ono, Takanori Komatsu, Kiyohide Ito & Makoto Okamoto

  2. Department of Information and Systems Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan

    Jun-ichi Akita

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  1. Tetsuo Ono
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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

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

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

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

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Ono, T., Komatsu, T., Akita, Ji., Ito, K., Okamoto, M. (2006). CyARM: Interactive Device for Environment Recognition and Joint Haptic Attention Using Non-visual Modality. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Karshmer, A.I. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11788713_180

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