Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
According to a 2018 World Health Organization investigation, worldwide, there are around 253 million visually impaired persons. Technological support is required to help such people walk safely. This paper focuses on the fact that many pedestrians are forming a flow in the actual walking environment. We believe that behavior decisions based on people flow lead to safe and reliable walking of the visually impaired people. The purpose of this study is to assist a visually impaired person’s recognition of surrounding dynamic environments by presenting people flow. To realize this, it is necessary to establish methods of extracting surrounding people flow information from sensing data and presenting the information to a user. In this paper, we propose a method of people flow presentation using vibrotactile stimulation. After identifying the vibration perception characteristics of the presentation positions on a human body, we design and verify the vibrotactile stimulation for people flow presentation.
