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.

Paper Citation

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