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Friday, April 13, 2012

Links to work on Spatial Cognition, HCI & Tactile Media

Spatial Cognition

  • Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) 
  • "Spatial Cognition" trans-regional research group at Bremen University
  • "Spatial Cognition and Wayfinding" lab at Bournemouth University
  • Center for Spatial Studies, University of California
  • "Spatial Thinking" lab at the University of California

Human Factors in Spatial Cognition

  • "Human Factors in GIScience" Lab, Penn State University
  • Computer Science and Media, Bauhaus Universität Weimar 

Tactile Media/Maps

  • Arbeitsgruppe Studium für Blinde und Sehbehinderte & Professur HCI, Universität Dresden
  • Computer-controlled, refreshable tactile displays: 
    • with piezo-electric, descrete dots: HyperBraille (demo video)
    • with dielectric elastomer, decrete dots (paper1, paper2, paper3)
  • HaptiMap EU project 
  • Open Street Map for the blind project (published HaptoRenderer) - some output printed with a  graphical embosser (pictures only)

Commercial Projects

  • Tactile Maps by Intouch Graphics
  • Map for all at RNBI
  • Tactile Maps by Perkins Scout 
More links at The Blind Readers' Page
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