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Mobility of Visually Impaired People

Fundamentals and ICT Assistive Technologies

  • Provides the basis for humanoid robot mobility and the framework for approaching of other types of – non-verbal- interactions with space
  • Proposes a global approach to the complex question of the mobility of healthy and visually impaired people
  • Describes current understanding how the interaction with the space via mobility impacts brain development and processing– non-verbal- interactions with space
  • Describes current understanding how the interaction with the space via mobility impacts brain development and processing
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Space for Mobility and Its Conscious Perception

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Living in Space. A Phenomenological Account

      • Gunnar Declerck, Charles Lenay
      Pages 3-52
  3. Neuro-cognitive Basis of Space Perception for Mobility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
    2. The Multisensory Blind Brain

      • Vanessa Harrar, Sébrina Aubin, Daniel-Robert Chebat, Ron Kupers, Maurice Ptito
      Pages 111-136
    3. On Spatial Cognition and Mobility Strategies

      • Edwige Pissaloux, Ramiro Velázquez
      Pages 137-166
    4. Sensory Substitution and the Neural Correlates of Navigation in Blindness

      • Daniel-Robert Chebat, Vanessa Harrar, Ron Kupers, Shachar Maidenbaum, Amir Amedi, Maurice Ptito
      Pages 167-200
  4. Mobility of the Visually Impaired

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
    2. Spatial Orientation in Children: A Tyflological Approach

      • Krystyna Nawrocka-Łabuś
      Pages 263-282
  5. ICT Technologies and Mobility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 375-375
    2. Co-designing together with Persons with Visual Impairments

      • Charlotte Magnusson, Per-Olof Hedvall, Héctor Caltenco
      Pages 411-434
    3. Different Approaches to Aiding Blind Persons in Mobility and Navigation in the “Naviton” and “Sound of Vision” Projects

      • P. Strumillo, M. Bujacz, P. Baranski, P. Skulimowski, P. Korbel, M. Owczarek et al.
      Pages 435-468

About this book

This book discusses the design of the new mobility assistive information and communication technologies (ICT) devices for the visually impaired. The book begins with a definition of the space concept, followed by the concept of interaction with a space during mobility and this interaction characteristics. The contributors will then examine the neuro-cognitive basis of space perception for mobility and different theories of space perception. The text presents the existing technologies for space perception (sense recovery with stem and iPS cells, implants, brain plasticity, sensory substitution devices, multi modal technologies, etc.), the newest technologies for mobility assistance design, the way the feedback on environment is conveyed to the end-user. Methods for formative and summative evaluations of the mobility devices will also be discussed. The book concludes with a look to the future trends in research and technology development for mobility assistive information and communication technologies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université de Rouen Normandie, Rouen, France

    Edwige Pissaloux

  • Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes, Mexico

    Ramiro Velazquez

About the editors

Edwige Pissaloux is a Full Professor at the University of Rouen, Physics Department, and closely collaborates with the ISIR (Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics) at Paris-Sorbonne University and the MIT (France-MIT program). She has authored more than 250 journals and conferences papers. Prof. Pissaloux main research interests are the modeling and design of vision systems, cognitive perception systems, and cognitive mobility systems.

Her research has been supported by European funds (EU FP7 Research and Innovation Funding Program), national funds (CNRS, CEA), and international projects (France-UK-Mexico). Prof. Pissaloux is a member of several international advisory boards of universities and research institutes, and teaches in several universities (Australia, Hong-Kong, Canada). She frequently acts as an international expert for several research bodies and international institutions such as the European Commission, NSF/USA, Canada, UK, Australia, China, Switzerland, etc.

Prof. Pissaloux initiated a series of national conferences such as “Space and its perception: application to design of assistive technologies” or “Eye, gaze and interaction”. She has participated and/or co-animated European Excellence networks.

In her free time, Prof. Pissaloux teaches violin for visually impaired children.


Ramiro Velázquez is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of E

ngineering of Universidad Panamericana (Aguascalientes, Mexico). He is past Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and currently serves as Vice-President for Research and member of the Board of Governors of this university.

He obtained the PhD in Robotics from UPMC-Paris6 Sorbonne University in 2006. He has authored more than 100 journals and conferences papers. Prof. Velázquez main research interests are assistive technologies, haptic and tactile devices, mechatronic systems, and human-computer interaction. His research projects in assistive devices for visually impaired and blind people have been featured in IEEE Spectrum, CNN, and BBC Horizons.

Prof. Velázquez frequently serves as

an expert evaluator for the European Commission, CONACYT (Mexico), and COLCIENCIAS (Colombia). He is a member of the Mexican National Systems of Researchers (SNI-Level I).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mobility of Visually Impaired People

  • Book Subtitle: Fundamentals and ICT Assistive Technologies

  • Editors: Edwige Pissaloux, Ramiro Velazquez

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54446-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54444-1Published: 07 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85394-9Published: 10 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54446-5Published: 20 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 652

  • Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 109 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

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Softcover Book USD 249.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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