@inproceedings{GayUmfahrerTheiletal.2020,
  author    = {James Gay and Moritz Umfahrer and Arthur Theil and Lea Buchweitz and Eva Lindell and Li Guo and Nils-Krister Persson and Oliver Korn},
  title     = {Keep Your Distance: A Playful Haptic Navigation Wearable for Individuals with Deafblindness},
  series = {ASSETS '20: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility},
  editor    = {Tiago Guerreiro and Hugo Nicolau and Karyn Moffatt},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  address   = {New York},
  organization    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  isbn      = {978-1-4503-7103-2},
  doi       = {10.1145/3373625.3418048},
  pages     = {1 -- 4},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Deafblindness, a form of dual sensory impairment, signifcantly impacts communication, access to information and mobility. Inde- pendent navigation and wayfnding are main challenges faced by individuals living with combined hearing and visual impairments. We developed a haptic wearable that provides sensory substitution and navigational cues for users with deafblindness by conveying vibrotactile signals onto the body. Vibrotactile signals on the waist area convey directional and proximity information collected via a fisheye camera attached to the garment, while semantic informa- tion is provided with a tapping system on the shoulders. A playful scenario called “Keep Your Distance” was designed to test the navigation system: individuals with deafblindness were “secret agents” that needed to follow a “suspect”, but they should keep an opti- mal distance of 1.5 meters from the other person to win the game. Preliminary fndings suggest that individuals with deafblindness enjoyed the experience and were generally able to follow the directional cues.},
  language  = {en}
}