| Project/Area Number |
25280097
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Kansei informatics
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| Research Institution | Tsukuba University of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIYAKAWA Masahiro 筑波技術大学, 名誉教授 (70248748)
SEKITA Iwao 筑波技術大学, 保健科学部, 教授 (40357322)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
MURAI Yasuyuki 日本薬科大学, 薬学部, 准教授 (30373054)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥13,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,000,000)
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| Keywords | 視覚障がい / 仮想触力覚 / 触知ＶＲ / 複合現実 / 白杖歩行支援 / 環境認知 / 感性情報学 / 視覚障害補償 / 疑似触力覚 / 仮想現実感 / 認知支援 / 環境把握 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Creating a virtual reality (VR) by combining visual information and pseudo touch sensing is studied widely. Being strictly detached from visual information, the visually impaired are off from the benefit of VR technology. Our study here is the development of HAPTIC VR TECHNOLOGY for aiding them. We establish a new method of accessing VR space through "virtual white cane". Our VR sensing method consists of the following haptic sensing process at the fingers of the user's hand on which "data-glove" (force feedback device) is worn. In our VR setting, we have implemented two objects: "studded paving blocks on the pavement" and "white-cane" with a "hand" which manipulate it in search for the blocks on the pavement. One of user's hand wearing the data-glove on it is superposed on the virtual hand by the system. Thus the search by touching on the pavement by the white-cane in the VR space is successfully conveyed to the actual hand of the user via data-glove.
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