Haptic Handheld Wayfinder with Pseudo-Attraction Force for Pedestrians with Visual Impairments
Tomohiro Amemiya, Hisashi Sugiyama · 2009 · Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)
This paper presents a compact handheld haptic device that guides visually impaired pedestrians by generating a directional force sensation — a feeling of being pulled or pushed toward the correct direction. The device exploits a perceptual phenomenon called "pseudo-attraction…
haptic technology · wayfinding · visual impairment · navigation · kinesthetic perception