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September 18, 2019
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Sensitive interfaces for blind people in virtual visits inside unknown spaces

Publicated to: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES. 133 13-25 - 2020-01-01 133(), DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2019.08.004

Authors:

Guerrón, NE; Cobo, A; Olmedo, JJS; Martín, C
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Affiliations

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) - Author
Centro de Tecnologia Biomedica (CTB) - Author
Ctr Invest Biomed Red Bioingn Biomat & Nanomed, Madrid 28029, Spain - Author
Univ Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolqui 170501, Ecuador - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Ctr Biomed Technol, Madrid 28223, Spain - Author
Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE - Author
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Abstract

© 2019 Virtual reality applications with sensitive interfaces for blind users were developed and tested on smart mobiles running Android as operating system with the participation of twenty blind adults; each application was built with a cognitive interface and a combination of three sensitive interfaces (voice, beeps and gestures) to allow the user to explore the inside of a virtual scenario beforehand. The vibration was an extra, fixed sensitive interface that informed the user that the avatar was walking through the virtual world. The combination of different interfaces within the applications allowed to (1) provide multisensory information to the user while exploring an unknown virtual scenario, (2) build a model of the space in which the user is located and (3) successfully perform tasks in the real world. This research compared different patterns for each interface: 3 for voice, 3 for the beep and 4 for gestures, during the exploration of an unknown space, with the goal of determining which ones were the most efficient and effective at detecting, identifying and locating structures and objects in an unfamiliar environment, aiding blind users to develop a cognitive map of the explored place and successfully perform tasks within the real scenario. Evidence shows that the voice interface provides a statistically significant difference on effectiveness, efficiency, and cognitive mapping compared to other interfaces. Most decisively, pairwise comparisons have shown that, when compared to a normal speech rate, a speech rate 2 times faster manifested an improvement of 5.9% on object and structures detection, a reduction on exploration time of 39.72%, an improvement of 6% on quality of cognitive map development and greater success in carrying out the absolute tasks. The beep interface with 500 Hz frequency and 100 milliseconds spacing provided a statistically significant difference for cognitive mapping, showing an improvement of 8.9%. Finally, in the context of gesture interfaces, a single touch plus vertical swiping, produced statistically significant differences in the reduction of discovery time by 34.28%.
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Keywords

AccessibilityAudioAugmented realityCognitive mapsConstructionEnvironmentExplorationHuman-computer interfaceIndoor navigationSensitive interfaces for blind peopleVirtual reality applications

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2020, it was in position 4/16, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Ergonomics.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-26:

  • Google Scholar: 29
  • WoS: 17
  • Scopus: 20
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-26:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 91.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 91 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 38.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 8 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 4 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/85446/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 256
  • Downloads: 35
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Ecuador.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (GUERRÓN PAREDES, NANCY ENRIQUETA) and Last Author (MARTIN BEATO, CARLOS).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been GUERRÓN PAREDES, NANCY ENRIQUETA.

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