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This study attempted to reveal the role of auditory information in the accurate “perception of crossability” for people with severe visual impairment (‘the blind’). We created a ‘virtual 3D acoustic environment’ in which listeners feel a car passing in front of them to help them cross the street safely. An idea of this acoustic system originated from a previous research that showed that the blind make good use of reflected sounds or reverberations in identifying sources and in specifying distances from objects. The system is useful not only for analyzing critical cues of perception of ‘crossability’ but also for training the blind how to cross a street. Such auditory information can provide the blind with a safe training system for acquiring such auditory information.
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Shiose, T., Ito, K., Mamada, K. (2004). The Development of Virtual 3D Acoustic Environment for Training ‘Perception of Crossability’. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Burger, D. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27817-7_70
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