image: A research team member who is blind uses acoustic touch to locate and reach for an item on the table.
Credit: Photo taken by Lil Deverell (co-author) at the Motion Platform and Mixed Reality Lab in Techlab at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Smart glasses with a new "acoustic touch" feature similar to human echolocation may help blind or low-visioned individuals to recognize and reach objects
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0290431
Article Title: An investigation into the effectiveness of using acoustic touch to assist people who are blind
Author Countries: Australia
Funding: This work was supported by the Australian Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Round 11 CRCPXI000007, the ARIA research, the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of Sydney. Received by C.J, V.N and C.L. Website: https://business.gov.au/grants-and-programs/cooperative-research-centres-crc-grants.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
An investigation into the effectiveness of using acoustic touch to assist people who are blind
Article Publication Date
25-Oct-2023
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.