ENORASI

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Full name: Virtual Environments for the Training of Visually Impaired
Acronym: ENORASI
Website: http://enorasi.systema.gr/
Keywords: VEs for rehabilitation, Blind Users
Budget: € 2.540.911
Start date: 1/1/2001
End date: 1/1/2002

Partners

[[Systema Informatics S.A., Centre for Research and Technology Hellas/Informatics and Telematics Institute, Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation, Certec, Lund University,

Czech Technical University in Prague, Universidad PolitÎ¹cnica de Valencia, NAVIMETRIC S.L., Museo Marino Marini, Local Union of Central Macedonia of the Panhellenic Association of the Blind]]

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS: TZOVARAS, Dimitrios
NAVIMETRIC: GIL GOMEZ, Jose Antonio
CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE: SLAVIK, Pavel
LOCAL UNION OF CENTRAL MACEDONIA OF THE PANHELLENIC ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND: MITROPOULOS, Georgios
LUNDS UNIVERSITET: JONSSON, Bodil
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.: STUERING, Stefan
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA: ALCANIZ RAYA, Mariano

Funding Bodies

IST: Information Society Technologies
EU FP5 / IST

Contact

Dr. Tasos Harissis

Systema Technologis S.A.]] (mailto:systema@systema.gr)

Objectives

The ENORASI project aims at developing a highly interactive and extensible haptic virtual reality (VR) system that will allow visually impaired people, especially those blind from birth, to study and interact with various virtual objects. ENORASI will also provide case studies for their training through interaction, manipulation and modification of objects of complex shapes.

Main Results

ENORASI generated a large number of new innovative methodologies, technologies and concepts including the following:

User requirements document (URD)

System Architecture document

Applications for cane simulation environment

Applications for object recognition

Applications for map exploration

Edutainment applications.

End Users

Evaluation Methodologies

The VEs were evaluated by end-users using questionnaires. The users had to fill in questionnaires before and after participating to the evaluation procedure.

Design Approach

Human-Centred Design, Task/User Analysis, Usability engineering

Publications

D. Tzovaras, G. Nikolakis, G. Fergadis, S. Malasiotis and M. Stavrakis, ``Design and Implementation of Haptic Virtual Environments for the Training of Visually ImpairedÂ’Â’, IEEE Trans. on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp.266-278, June 2004.

D. Tzovaras, G. Nikolakis, G. Fergadis, S. Malassiotis and M. Stavrakis, Virtual Environments for the Training of Visually Impaired, CUWATTS Conference, Cambridge, March 2002.

D. Tzovaras, G. Nikolakis, G. Fergadis, S. Malassiotis and M. Stavrakis, Virtual Environments for the Training of Visually Impaired, S Keates, PJ Clarkson, PM Langdon and P Robinson (eds.) Universal Access and Assistive Technology, SPRINGER-VERLAG LONDON LIMITED, London, March 2002.

D. Tzovaras, G. Nikolakis, G. Fergadis, S. Malassiotis and M. Stavrakis, Design and Implementation of Virtual Environments for Training of the Visually ImpairedÂ”, International ASSETS 2002 SIGCAPH ACM Conference, Edimburg, UK, July 2002

D. Tzovaras, G. Nikolakis, G. Fergadis, S. Malassiotis and M. Stavrakis, Â“Feasibility Study of a Human-Computer Interaction System for the Training of Visually ImpairedÂ”, 2nd Hellenic Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (SETN-2002), Apr. 2002, Thessaloniki, Greece

Application & Research Areas

Technical Areas

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