GRAB
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- Full name
- Computer Graphics Access for Blind People through a Haptic Virtual Environment - GRAB
- Acronym
- GRAB
- Website
- http://www.grab-eu.com
- Keywords
- Haptic
- Budget
- € The overall cost was 2,227,987 Euro an the EC contribution 1,382,139 Euro
- Start date
- 1/1/2001
- End date
- 1/1/2004
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Partners
- LABEIN (Spain), ONCE (Spain), RNIB (UK), NCBI (Ireland), SSSA-PERCRO (Italy), Haptica Ltd (Ireland).
Funding Bodies
Contact
- [[LABEIN
Edificio 700 Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia Derio (Bizkaia) SPAIN Email: tere@labein.es Web:
Tel: +34946073300 Fax: +34946073349 (mailto:useremail@useremail)
Objectives
The GRAB project aims to reduce these barriers and enable blind and visually impaired persons to have access to the three-dimensional graphic computer world through the senses of touch and hearing by means of a new Haptic & Audio Virtual Environment.
Main Results
- Material results:
-Prototype, oSet of audio-Haptic applications developed on the top of the GRAB system. This set is composed of:
- A searching and adventurous game, one of the applications most demanded by the users: the user must move himself inside of a building (with different prizes, dangers and difficulties) to find a treasure
- A chart data explorer to access, read and manipulate financial (or other) data using virtual charts with the sense of touch and audio helps. The application imports directly the information from Excel files.
- A city-map explorer to allow visual impaired people to familiarise themselves with a city map, locate important facilities and destinations ahead of time and plan and rehearse journeys in a city. Maps are imported from GIS representations
End Users
Evaluation Methodologies
Design Approach
Publications
- “The Design and Evaluation of a Computer Game for the Blind in the GRAB Haptic Audio Virtual Environment”. Eurohaptics 2003, Dublin (Irlanda). Julio 2003.
- “GRAB - A new haptic and audio virtual environment enabling vision impaired people to access the three-dimensional computer graphic world”. Assistive Technology shaping the future (AAATE), Dublin (Irlanda). Agosto 2003.
- “A multi-finger haptic interface for blind users”. RO-MAN 03, International Conference on Robot and Human Interaction, USA. Octubre 2003
