TY - GEN
T1 - Haptics in audio described movies
AU - Viswanathan, Lakshmie Narayan
AU - McDaniel, Troy
AU - Krishna, Sreekar
AU - Panchanathan, Sethuraman
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Similar to closed captioning for people who cannot hear, Audio Description (AD) in movies correspond to a secondary audio track describing events that are otherwise visually dominant. To aid people who are visually impaired or blind in understanding the happenings of a movie, the narrator describes the emotions, expressions, and actions presented in a movie scene, among many other details. A major drawback in AD is the necessity to comprehend an overloaded auditory channel. Also, the lack of time available between dialogues leaves certain information not described. By incorporating haptics with AD, we intend to employ a multi-modal approach in an attempt to make movies more accessible for people who are visually impaired. In this demonstration, participants will experience tactile cues for a) the relative position of two actors in a scene through our novel vibrotactile belt, and b) their facial expressions through our novel vibrotactile glove.
AB - Similar to closed captioning for people who cannot hear, Audio Description (AD) in movies correspond to a secondary audio track describing events that are otherwise visually dominant. To aid people who are visually impaired or blind in understanding the happenings of a movie, the narrator describes the emotions, expressions, and actions presented in a movie scene, among many other details. A major drawback in AD is the necessity to comprehend an overloaded auditory channel. Also, the lack of time available between dialogues leaves certain information not described. By incorporating haptics with AD, we intend to employ a multi-modal approach in an attempt to make movies more accessible for people who are visually impaired. In this demonstration, participants will experience tactile cues for a) the relative position of two actors in a scene through our novel vibrotactile belt, and b) their facial expressions through our novel vibrotactile glove.
KW - Audio description
KW - Described video
KW - Haptic belt
KW - Haptics
KW - Tactile
KW - Vibrations
KW - Vibrotactile belt
KW - Vibrotactile glove
KW - Video description
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U2 - 10.1109/HAVE.2010.5623958
DO - 10.1109/HAVE.2010.5623958
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650542245
SN - 9781424465088
T3 - HAVE 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games, Proceedings
SP - 200
EP - 201
BT - HAVE 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games, Proceedings
T2 - 2010 9th IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games, HAVE 2010
Y2 - 16 October 2010 through 17 October 2010
ER -