CyARM : 非視覚的モダリティによる「直感」のインタフェース(S61 ムバコン・ユーザビリティ-知的クラスター「札幌ITカロッツェリアの創成」)

抄録

The purpose of this research is to develop an interactive device for environment recognition, which uses senses other than vision. At present there is no interactive device with which a person who is visually handicapped can gain an intuitive impression of the external world. Our device, which we have named CyARM, has a mechanism that controls the motion of a visually impaired person's arm according to information about distance gathered by an ultrasonic sensor. The user can identify not only the existence of an object, but also its form.