TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Gay, James A1 - Umfahrer, Moritz A1 - Theil, Arthur A1 - Buchweitz, Lea A1 - Lindell, Eva A1 - Guo, Li A1 - Persson, Nils-Krister A1 - Korn, Oliver ED - Guerreiro, Tiago ED - Nicolau, Hugo ED - Moffatt, Karyn T1 - Keep Your Distance: A Playful Haptic Navigation Wearable for Individuals with Deafblindness T2 - ASSETS '20: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility N2 - 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. KW - Deafblindness KW - Assistive Technology KW - Gamification KW - Haptics KW - Human Computer Interaction Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-1-4503-7103-2 SB - 978-1-4503-7103-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3418048 DO - https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3418048 SP - 1 EP - 4 PB - ACM Press CY - New York ER -