ISCA Archive SPECOM 2004
ISCA Archive SPECOM 2004

New approach to supporting communication for blinds: applied learning system

George V. Losik, Sergey V. Kirpich, Oleg G. Sizonov

As follows from review of applied approaches for support of communication facilities for blinds there is a need in development of applied systems and techniques for compensation visual impairment. As it well known there are millions people who are visually impaired (for instance, about 10,000 people in Belarus). The paper contains a particular project description that focuses on the navigation of individuals with visual impairment in real human space. Meantime the skills of navigation in the virtual space are similar to the real space. Such approach gives the possibility to consider psychological point of view. This one can be in use to replace the known activities into new ones. The following is short description of the approach that allows to clear and to resolve some problems of supporting communication for blinds.


Cite as: Losik, G.V., Kirpich, S.V., Sizonov, O.G. (2004) New approach to supporting communication for blinds: applied learning system. Proc. 9th Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2004), 558-559

@inproceedings{losik04_specom,
  author={George V. Losik and Sergey V. Kirpich and Oleg G. Sizonov},
  title={{New approach to supporting communication for blinds: applied learning system}},
  year=2004,
  booktitle={Proc. 9th Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2004)},
  pages={558--559}
}