Browsing International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) by Author "Heller, Laurie M"

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    • EchoExplorer: A Game App for Understanding Echolocation and Learning to Navigate Using Echo Cues 

      Wu, Wenyu; Morina, Rudina; Schenker, Arley; Gotsis, Alexander; Chivukula, Harsha; Gardner, Madeline; Liu, Felix; Barton, Spencer; Woyach, Steven; Sinopoli, Bruno; Grover, Pulkit; Heller, Laurie M. (Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community on Auditory Display, 2017-06)
      Echolocation -- the ability to detect objects in space through the perception of echoes from these objects -- has been identified as a promising venue to help visually impaired individuals navigate within their environments. ...

    • Evaluating Two Ways to Train Sensitivity to Echoes to Improve Echolocation 

      Heller, Laurie M.; Schenker, Arley; Grover, Pulkit; Gardner, Madeline; Liu, Felix (Georgia Institute of TechnologyInternational Community on Auditory Display, 2017-06)
      We investigated whether training sighted individuals to attend to information in echoes could improve their active echolocation ability. We evaluated two training techniques that involved artificially generated sounds. Both ...