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Development of Road Crossing Training Software for Visual Impaired Persons by Acoustic Virtual Reality Technique

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26560014
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Design science
Research InstitutionFuture University-Hakodate

Principal Investigator

Ito Kiyohide  公立はこだて未来大学, システム情報科学部, 准教授 (90325895)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Keywords音響VR / 歩行訓練 / 視覚障害者 / ソフトウエア / 訓練用ソフトウエア
Outline of Final Research Achievements

I developed software for the visually impaired to learn the safety judgment for crossing road. The software presents the acoustic situations where cars are running on a road in a virtual acoustic space. For example, a car came from right and ran away to the left, then another car is coming from right again, and a parked car started-up engine. Trainees are asked to listen carefully to the presented sounds, push a space key when they think they can cross the road safely. The software gives feedback if the judgments were safe or not by synthesized speech. A teacher of a blind school and five visual impaired tried the software for evaluation. They all reported that the auditory situations were real enough as if cars were running in front of them. In response to their advices, we changed the key assignment, order the tasks in appropriate order, and added explanation of situation in feedback. These improvements made the software more user-friendly and effective for learning.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2015 2014

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results)

  • [Journal Article] FutureBody-finger: A novel alternative aid for visually impaired persons2015

    • Author(s)
      Kiyohide Ito, Yoshiharu Fujimoto, Makoto Okamoto, Junichi Akita, Akihiro Masatani, Tetsuo Ono
    • Journal Title

      International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences

      Volume: 7 Pages: 54-65

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Response in Delayed Human Control System2015

    • Author(s)
      Fujita, Y., Sakurazawa, S., & Ito, K.
    • Organizer
      18th International Conference on Perception and Action
    • Place of Presentation
      Minneapolis(アメリカ)
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-14
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Auditory Perception of Shaking Events2015

    • Author(s)
      Ito, K., & Takiyama, M.
    • Organizer
      18th International Conference on Perception and Action
    • Place of Presentation
      Minneapolis(アメリカ)
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-14
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Relationship between Physiological Tremor and Haptic Perception2015

    • Author(s)
      Sakurazawa, S., Noto, A., & Ito, K.
    • Organizer
      18th International Conference on Perception and Action
    • Place of Presentation
      Minneapolis(アメリカ)
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-14
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Medium facilitates the perception of affordances of touch2015

    • Author(s)
      Ito, K., Sawada, M., Mishima, H., Takiyama, M., & Kikuchi, Y.
    • Organizer
      18th International Conference on Perception and Action
    • Place of Presentation
      Minneapolis(アメリカ)
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-14
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 環境としての生理的振戦と触知覚の関係2014

    • Author(s)
      櫻沢繁、能戸嵐士、伊藤精英
    • Organizer
      電子情報通信学会 HCGシンポジウム2014
    • Place of Presentation
      海峡メッセ下関(山口県下関市)
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-17 – 2014-12-19
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Touch at a distance: simple perception aid device with user’s explorer action2014

    • Author(s)
      Akita, J., Ono, T., Ito, K., & Okamoto, M.
    • Organizer
      Proceedings of The 2014 SIGGRAPH Asia Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Shenzhen Convention & Exhibithion Center(中国・深セン)
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-03 – 2014-12-06
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] FB-Finger: Development of a novel electric travel aid with a unique haptic interface2014

    • Author(s)
      Ito, K., Fujimoto, Y., Otsuki, R., Niiyama, Y., Masatani, A., Komatsu, T., Akita, J., Ono, T., & Okamoto, M.
    • Organizer
      Proceedings of The 14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP14)
    • Place of Presentation
      UNIVERSITY PARIS 8 ST. DENIS(Paris)
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-07 – 2014-07-11
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2017-05-10  

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