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Designing a Smart Ring and a Smartphone Application to Help Monitor, Manage and Live Better with the Effects of Raynaud’s Phenomenon Kapitel lesen Erstes Kapitel lesen

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Following the Cuckoo Sound: A Responsive Floor to Train Blind Children to Avoid Veering

verfasst von : Marcella Mandanici, Antonio Rodà, Sergio Canazza, Giulia Cavagnoli

Erschienen in: Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Following the Cuckoo Sound is a responsive floor application designed to train blind children to walk along a straight path through the use of interactive audio. The system, based on computer vision algorithms, is able to estimate the cartesian coordinates of a user as soon as s/he enters the active area. To provide children with an efficient and playful tool which can help them in the task of walking straight, we designed an interactive audio environment based on a cuckoo sound which is altered if the child veers from a central hallway. To obtain preliminary information about the potential of the application, we organized a pilot study involving 6 blind children. Results show an improvement in the stability of the direction in 5 subjects out of 6. Moreover, the great interest among the children for interactive audio suggests that this is a promising investigation field to help wayfinding and orientation.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Designing a Smart Ring and a Smartphone Application to Help Monitor, Manage and Live Better with the Effects of Raynaud’s Phenomenon
Nächstes Kapitel Statistical Features for Objects Localization with Passive RFID in Smart Homes
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A video showing Following the Cuckoo Sound while being tested at the Robert Hollman Institute (Padova, Italy) can be found at https://​youtu.​be/​yUkPcD1M-OQ. The white tags visible on the carpet in the video were used only to notify the hallway limits and the START and END positions for clarity of the video viewers. They were removed in the experimental sessions, to avoid that their presence was felt to the touch by the children.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Following the Cuckoo Sound: A Responsive Floor to Train Blind Children to Avoid Veering
verfasst von
Marcella Mandanici
Antonio Rodà
Sergio Canazza
Giulia Cavagnoli
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Buch
Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-76110-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-76111-4

Copyright-Jahr: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76111-4_2