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Author(s): Dharmjeet Rattan , Greg Johnson
Presentation: oral
This project was funded by the Student Research Grant provided by The College of Idaho. In 2011 there were a recorded 6.6 million adults in the United States with a visual disability. The majority of these people use canes, dog guides, or other similar devices designed to help the visually impaired get through their daily lives. AuralEyes is a proposed assistive technology that tracks eye movement and provides audio feedback to help the visually impaired detect objects in a more flexible way than a cane would allow. Our experiment puts the AuralEyes to the test by examining how easy it is to learn to use a depth sensor that provides audio feedback as a navigation tool. This test was accomplished by constructing a re-configurable obstacle course that test subjects traversed blindfolded while wearing a depth sensor that can be moved and pointed in different directions. We then measured the time it took to complete multiple trial runs and the number of collisions and wrong turns throughout. This data was analyzed relative to a hypothetical baseline for a sighted person.
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