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Smart glasses with a new "acoustic touch" feature similar to human echolocation may help blind or low-visioned individuals to recognize and reach objects

10.25.23 | PLOS

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An investigation into the effectiveness of using acoustic touch to assist people who are blind
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 .

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0290431

An investigation into the effectiveness of using acoustic touch to assist people who are blind

25-Oct-2023

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Blindness Diseases and Disorders Health and Medicine Health Care Sonar Vision Disorders

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0290431
Article Publication Date
2023-10-25
Article Title
An investigation into the effectiveness of using acoustic touch to assist people who are blind
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2023, October 25). Smart glasses with a new "acoustic touch" feature similar to human echolocation may help blind or low-visioned individuals to recognize and reach objects. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LN2NN441/smart-glasses-with-a-new-acoustic-touch-feature-similar-to-human-echolocation-may-help-blind-or-low-visioned-individuals-to-recognize-and-reach-objects.html
MLA:
"Smart glasses with a new "acoustic touch" feature similar to human echolocation may help blind or low-visioned individuals to recognize and reach objects." Brightsurf News, Oct. 25 2023, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LN2NN441/smart-glasses-with-a-new-acoustic-touch-feature-similar-to-human-echolocation-may-help-blind-or-low-visioned-individuals-to-recognize-and-reach-objects.html.