Laboratoire de recherche sur les déficiences visuelles et les technologies d’assitance
Thackavoir 2020 : on continue !
Dans ce contexte un peu spécial, l’édition 2020 du concours THackaVoir reste maintenue, avec quelques ajustements. Nous espérons pouvoir mener à bien la plupart des projets présentés cette année et organiser la revue de projets dès que la situation nous le permettra, très certainement à l’automne 2020. Thackavoir, un concours collaboratif Thackavoir est un concours collaboratif consistant à créer des objets ou des outils interactifs accessibles aux déficients visuels en […]
« Handi’cap on the difference » Festival
On Thursday 10 October, the « Cherçons pour voir » laboratory was invited to present its research work as part of the « Handi’cap on difference » festival dedicated this year to the visually impaired. The newspaper « La Dépêche » devoted an article to it which we are happy to share with you. « The 4th edition of the » Handi’Cap on difference « festival has accomplished its mission: » to break down received ideas about disability « . Organized […]
Disability, impairment, activity limitation, what this?
Common parlance generally speaks of « handicap »; but there is a difference between disability, impairment and other terms defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). When a medical diagnosis is made, it is primarily a finding of impairment, according to the terminology adopted by the WHO. The deficiency (sensory in the case of vision) leads to activity limitations (inability to read letters that are too small, for example) and to participation […]
Augmented reality for the creation and use of audio-tactile documents
Background and objectives Whether at school, in daily life or in professional life, we need to consult maps, diagrams, graphs, etc. These maps are necessary for building skills and mental models used in many fields (geography, biology, mathematics, mechanics, etc.). For people with visual impairments, access to these different graphics is not excellent, which can have consequences on learning. The « Augmented Space Reality » (or SAR in English) project started in […]