TY  - GEN
A1  - Schneider, Oliver
A1  - Shigeyama, Jotaro
A1  - Kovacs, Robert
A1  - Roumen, Thijs Jan
A1  - Marwecki, Sebastian
A1  - Böckhoff, Nico
A1  - Glöckner, Daniel Amadeus Johannes
A1  - Bounama, Jonas
A1  - Baudisch, Patrick
T1  - DualPanto
BT  - a haptic device that enables blind users to continuously interact with virtual worlds
T2  - UIST '18: Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
N2  - We present a new haptic device that enables blind users to continuously track the absolute position of moving objects in spatial virtual environments, as is the case in sports or shooter games. Users interact with DualPanto by operating the me handle with one hand and by holding on to the it handle with the other hand. Each handle is connected to a pantograph haptic input/output device. The key feature is that the two handles are spatially registered with respect to each other. When guiding their avatar through a virtual world using the me handle, spatial registration enables users to track moving objects by having the device guide the output hand. This allows blind players of a 1-on-1 soccer game to race for the ball or evade an opponent; it allows blind players of a shooter game to aim at an opponent and dodge shots. In our user study, blind participants reported very high enjoyment when using the device to play (6.5/7).
KW  - Haptics
KW  - force-feedback
KW  - accessibility
KW  - blind
KW  - visually impaired
KW  - gaming
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-1-4503-5948-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242604
SP  - 877
EP  - 887
PB  - Association for Computing Machinery
CY  - New York
ER  -