Takahiro Miura
ABSTRACT
Goalball, one of the official Paralympic events, is popular with visually impaired people all over the world. The purpose of goalball is to throw the specialized ball, with bells inside it, to the goal line of the opponents as many times as possible while defenders try to block the thrown ball with their bodies. Since goalball players cannot rely on visual information, they need to grasp the game situation using their auditory sense. However, it is hard, especially for beginners, to perceive the direction and distance of the thrown ball. In addition, they generally tend to be afraid of the approaching ball because, without visual information, they could be hit by a high-speed ball. In this paper, our goal is to develop an application called GoalBaural (Goalball + aural) that enables goalball players to improve the recognizability of the direction and distance of a thrown ball without going onto the court and playing goalball. The evaluation result indicated that our application would be efficient in improving the speed and the accuracy of locating the balls.
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Index Terms
- GoalBaural: A Training Application for Goalball-related Aural Sense
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