Multi-Sensory Interaction for Blind and Visually Impaired People

Dear Colleagues,

Multi-sensory interaction aids learning, inclusion, and collaboration, because it accommodates the diverse cognitive and perceptual needs. Multisensory  integration is an essential part of information processing by which various forms of sensory information, such as sight, hearing, touch, and proprioception (also called kinesthesia, the sense of self-movement and body position), are combined into a single experience. Information is typically integrated across sensory modalities when the sensory inputs share certain common features. Cross-modality refers to the interaction between two different sensory channels. Cross-modal correspondence is defined as the surprising associations that people experience between seemingly unrelated features, attributes, or dimensions of experience in different sensory modalities. One application of munti-sensory studies bridging or closing the information gap between people with visual impairments and sighted people.  For visually-impaired people, the conventional human computer interaction devices are inconvenient as the devices rely heavily on visual information. Though many studies introduce the use of other modalities of sensation like haptic, sound, and scent for user interface to act as a supplement for the absence of vision, they are still not close to what the vision is to the people. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Universal access in Human Computer Interaction
• Haptic interface for accessibility
• Tactile artworks and interactions
• Flexible haptic display
• Ambient assistive intelligence
• Human-centered user accessibility for people with visual impairment
• Assistive technology
• Multisensory Color Coding

Prof. Dr. Jun Dong Cho
Guest Editor

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