"I always wanted to see the night sky": Blind user preferences for sensory substitution devices
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 16268
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/2858036.2858241
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
- First page
- 2162
- Volume
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- Issue
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- ISSN
- 1062-9432
- Open access status
- Technical exception
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 12
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper tested and compared three sensory substitution devices (SSD) with blind and visually impaired people (BVIP). This work identified new design avenues for SSDs to improve BVIP’s everyday life experiences. The work won an honourable mention award at ACM CHI. Further funding was obtained to explore market potentials (£6k, http://soundsight.co.uk) and to extend research into haptics for SSDs (£70,5k for an industry-funded PhD studentship for a blind student). This led to 2 industry co-authored articles (i.e. IEEE ToH, CHI EA’20), and original new research into haptics for science communication, published in Frontiers in CS, and JCOM.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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