| Subject: | X-Road project – Orientation & Mobility and accessible Virtual Reality : which comes first ? |
| Abstract: | X-Road is a virtual reality (VR) system for Orientation & Mobility training (O&M), that can be use in addition to classical O&M modalities. Professionals instructors trained students with visual impairments during O&M classes, demonstrating the feasibility of accessible VR. During the design phase, we first learned the O&M techniques to be sure the virtual world could be represented. So, like chicken-and-egg, O&M helps to create accessible VR, and VR helps for O&M.We will present : – the theoretical advantages of VR for O&M – how X-Road is technically designed – what the instructors and the students think of X-Road – our main results, from design guidelines to pedagogical usefulness |
| Speaker: | Mrs. Lauren Thevin |
| Web: |
https://sites.google.com/ensc.fr/laurenthevin/welcome |
| Organisation: |
Université Catholique de l’Ouest /France |
| Short biography of speaker: | Lauren Thevin is an associate professor at UCO-Bretagne Sud in Vannes (Bretagne, France). Her current research is about virtual and augmented reality for people with and without visual impairments.
After a PhD in computer sciences at Grenoble-Aples Univerity (artificial intelligence and multi-agent system for emergency response training) , she continued her research on technology & training at Inria-Bordeaux, Toulouse university and LMU-Munich about accessible augmented and virtual reality. |