TY - GEN
T1 - Audio-haptic description in movies
AU - Viswanathan, Lakshmie Narayan
AU - McDaniel, Troy
AU - Panchanathan, Sethuraman
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper proposes a methodology to enhance audio described movies (i.e., films augmented with additional narration to explain visual content to viewers who are blind or visually impaired) by providing positional information of on-screen actors through haptics. Using a vibrotactile belt, we map the location of a character across the screen to a relative location around the waist, and the relative distance of a character from the camera is mapped to a tactile rhythm. Character movement is subsequently conveyed through these two dimensions. All participants, including one visually impaired subject, felt the vibrations improved their visualization of the clips. This subject also felt that it was quite easy to combine the information received through audio and haptics, and that the vibrations were not obstructing the subject's attention to audio.
AB - This paper proposes a methodology to enhance audio described movies (i.e., films augmented with additional narration to explain visual content to viewers who are blind or visually impaired) by providing positional information of on-screen actors through haptics. Using a vibrotactile belt, we map the location of a character across the screen to a relative location around the waist, and the relative distance of a character from the camera is mapped to a tactile rhythm. Character movement is subsequently conveyed through these two dimensions. All participants, including one visually impaired subject, felt the vibrations improved their visualization of the clips. This subject also felt that it was quite easy to combine the information received through audio and haptics, and that the vibrations were not obstructing the subject's attention to audio.
KW - Audio description
KW - assistive technology
KW - described audio
KW - descriptive video service
KW - haptics
KW - movies
KW - tactile icons
KW - tactons
KW - vibrotactile belt
KW - video description
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22098-2_83
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22098-2_83
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960398724
SN - 9783642220975
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 414
EP - 418
BT - HCI International 2011 - Posters' Extended Abstracts - International Conference, HCI International 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2011
Y2 - 9 July 2011 through 14 July 2011
ER -