TOUCHING VIRTUAL REALITY - An Effective Learning Chance for Visually Impaired People

F. De Felice, F. Renna, G. Attolico, A. Distante

2009

Abstract

This paper presents a Virtual Reality (VR) system that allows visual impaired users to explore Virtual Environments (VEs) by a haptic/acoustic interaction. The system may have many interesting educational applications: indeed visually impaired people can access and learn informative contents conveyed by opportunely designed and rendered 3D VEs. Moreover a visual 3D scene editor allows domain experts, responsible of the learning process, to design the VE even if not well grounded in VR. This tool enables an easy prototipization and a fast modification of the haptic/acoustic rendering to fit users feedback: therefore the design of the learning experience arises from the cooperation of the domain expert with the final users.

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in Harvard Style

De Felice F., Renna F., Attolico G. and Distante A. (2009). TOUCHING VIRTUAL REALITY - An Effective Learning Chance for Visually Impaired People . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8111-82-1, pages 439-442. DOI: 10.5220/0001977504390442


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu09,
author={F. De Felice and F. Renna and G. Attolico and A. Distante},
title={TOUCHING VIRTUAL REALITY - An Effective Learning Chance for Visually Impaired People},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2009},
pages={439-442},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001977504390442},
isbn={978-989-8111-82-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - TOUCHING VIRTUAL REALITY - An Effective Learning Chance for Visually Impaired People
SN - 978-989-8111-82-1
AU - De Felice F.
AU - Renna F.
AU - Attolico G.
AU - Distante A.
PY - 2009
SP - 439
EP - 442
DO - 10.5220/0001977504390442