Investigating Three-dimensional Directional Guidance with Nonvisual Feedback for Target Pointing Task

Seung A. Chung, Kyungyeon Lee, Uran Oh

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Abstract

While directional guidance is essential for spatial navigation, little has been studied about providing nonvisual cues in 3D space for individuals who are blind or have limited visual acuity. To understand the effects of different nonvisual feedback for 3D directional guidance, we conducted a user study with 12 blind-folded participants. They were asked to search for a virtual target in a 3D space with a laser pointer as quickly as possible under 6 different feedback designs varying the feedback mode (beeping vs. haptic vs. beeping+haptic) and the presence of a stereo sound. Our findings show that beeping sound feedback with and without haptic feedback outperforms the mode where only haptic feedback is provided. We also found that stereo sound feedback generated from a target significantly improves both the task completion time and travel distance. Our work can help people who are blind or have limited visual acuity to understand the directional guidance in a 3D space.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdjunct Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages206-210
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728176758
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2020
Event2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2020 - Virtual, Recife, Brazil
Duration: 9 Nov 202013 Nov 2020

Publication series

NameAdjunct Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2020

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2020
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityVirtual, Recife
Period9/11/2013/11/20

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by the MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-2020-0-01460) supervised by the IITP(Institute of Information Communications TechnologyPlanning Evaluation).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.

Keywords

  • 3D environment
  • audio feedback
  • Directional guidance
  • haptic feedback

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