According to new research, visually impaired babies rely more on touch than hearing to respond to the world around them, but both senses will be important in designing tools to help them develop. Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) in Italy and the University of Birmingham in the UK collaborated to compare how sighted, and visually impaired babies reacted to different stimuli.
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New research explores how visually impaired babies perceive the world
An infant is touching an object. Visually impaired babies rely more on touch than hearing to respond to the world around them, but both senses will be important in designing tools to help them develop.
Virtual reality archery is “Braille” for orientation of blind people
Researchers at the IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) developed an acoustic virtual reality-based archery game, enabling blind people to experience for the first time this type of technology, which is typically focused on vision.
Virtual reality archery for the visually impaired
The platform was presented at the 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering and Biology Society (EMBC), and the findings were presented to Frontiers in Human Neuroscience last November.
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They will have €150,000 each to bridge the gap between the results of their pioneering research and the early phases of its commercialisation.
