Mobility of visually impaired people : fundamentals and ICT assistive technologies /: fundamentals and ICT assistive technologies. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edwige Pissaloux, Ramiro Velázquez, editors.
• Editors: Pissaloux, Edwige; Velázquez, Ramiro
• Contents: About the Editors; Introduction; Who May Benefit from Reading This Book?; An Overview of the Book; Space for Mobility and Its Conscious Perception; 1 Living in Space. A Phenomenological Account; 1 Introduction; 2 Lived Space as an Interconnected Set (Network) of Places; 2.1 The Reticular Organization of Lived Space; 2.2 What Places Are Is What They Are for; 2.3 Space in the Singular and Space in the Plural; 3 Lived Space As Shaped By One's Body; 3.1 The Egocentric Mode of Manifestation of Lived Space. Where Things Look to Be Depends on Where One Is 3.2 Living with a Body in Space. Space as that in Which One Must Find a Place3.3 When One's Where Is not Determined by the Position of One's Physical Body. Immersion in Virtual Spaces; 4 Lived Space and Possibilities. What is and What Can be; 4.1 To See Space Is to Foresee Possibilities; 4.2 What Kind of Action Possibilities One Anticipates When Perceiving Space; 4.3 Phenomenal Distance as a Measure of Availability for Use; 4.4 What Can Be and What Could Have Been: The Role of Counterfactual Statements in One's Experience of Space; 5 Lived Space and the Possibility of Being Perceived 6 The Space of the Blind. Do Visually Impaired People Live in Another Space?6.1 The Memory-Dependence of the Space of the Blind; 6.2 Can Blind People Hide? The Principle of Perceptual Occlusion in the Blind; References; 2 Technologies to Access Space Without Vision. Some Empirical Facts and Guiding Theoretical Principles; 1 Sensory Substitution; 2 Spatial Localization; 2.1 The General Problem; 2.2 A Minimalist Method; 3 Sensori-Motor Rules; 4 The Space of Possibilities; 5 Shape Recognition; 6 Technical Mediations of Perceptual Activity ; 6.1 Sensory Modalities and Perceptual Modalities 6.2 The Tool 'in Hand'7 Conclusion: Perceptual Supplementation; References; 3 Mobility Technologies for Visually Impaired People Through the Prism of Classic Theories of Perception; 1 Introduction; 2 Mobility Technologies Through the Prism of Descartes; 2.1 A Theory of the Cane of the Blind Man in Descartes' Optics; 2.2 Information and Communication Technologies Through the Prism of Descartes; 3 An Alternative Theory: Condillac's Treatise on the Sensations; 3.1 From a Causalist Theory to an Empiricist Theory of Perception; 3.2 Mobility Technologies Through the Prism of Condillac 4 Condillac Confronted with Merleau-Ponty4.1 The Merleau-Pontian Theory of the Cane; 4.2 Theoretical and Practical Contributions of the Condillacian Theory of Perception; 5 Conclusion; References; Neuro-cognitive Basis of Space Perception for Mobility; 4 The Multisensory Blind Brain; 1 Introduction; 2 What Is Multisensory?; 3 Multisensory Areas in the Brain; 4 Primary Visual Cortex; 4.1 Auditory Activation of Visual Areas; 4.2 Tactile and Proprioceptive Activation of Visual Areas; 4.3 Pain Activation of Visual Areas; 4.4 Chemical Senses; 5 Primary Auditory and Somatosensory Cortex
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 652 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 681.761; Engineering; People with visual disabilities -- Orientation and mobility; Blind, Apparatus for the -- Technological innovations; People with visual disabilities -- Means of communication -- Technological innovations; Computers and people with visual disabilities; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades; Computers and people with visual disabilities; People with visual disabilities -- Orientation and mobility; Technology & Engineering -- Engineering (General); Computers -- User Interfaces; Biomedical engineering; User interface design & usability; Biomedical engineering; Computer science; Technology & Engineering -- Electronics -- General; Imaging systems & technology; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319544465; 3319544462
• Related ISBNs: 9783319544441; 3319544446
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 06, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.