A Framework for Electronic Travel Aids

Florian von Zabiensky, Diethelm Bienhaus

2017

Abstract

Electronic Travel Aids (ETA) help visually impaired people to avoid obstacles. In the ETA area new user interfaces and interaction modes are investigated. Due to increasing hardware and software complexity used in modern ETA there is an increasing demand for simulation tool to facilitate development processes. Such tools enable testing of larger varieties of user experiences in shorter time. In the field of acoustic virtual displays capabilities of different sounds and psychoacoustic phenomena to display three-dimensional sound have to be evaluated. Different simulators make it difficult to compare research results. To facilitate comparability between different approaches an ETA framework is introduced in this work. The framework includes a simulator which allows research groups to perform experiments with their specific interfaces. Due to the same underlying simulation environment results of various groups are comparable. Using a framework would make algorithms or devices from different research groups be directly usable for others. In this position paper the development of such a framework is reasoned and the basic requirements on such a framework are proposed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

von Zabiensky F. and Bienhaus D. (2017). A Framework for Electronic Travel Aids.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA, ISBN 978-989-758-267-7, pages 172-177. DOI: 10.5220/0006514701720177

in Bibtex Style

@conference{chira17,
author={Florian von Zabiensky and Diethelm Bienhaus},
title={A Framework for Electronic Travel Aids},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,},
year={2017},
pages={172-177},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006514701720177},
isbn={978-989-758-267-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,
TI - A Framework for Electronic Travel Aids
SN - 978-989-758-267-7
AU - von Zabiensky F.
AU - Bienhaus D.
PY - 2017
SP - 172
EP - 177
DO - 10.5220/0006514701720177