Haptic Recognition of Emotions in Raised-Line Drawings by Congenitally Blind and Sighted Adults

15 sighted and 15 congenitally blind adults were to classify raised-line pictures of emotional faces through haptics. Whereas accuracy did not vary significantly between the two groups, the blind adults were faster at the task. These results suggest that raised-line pictures of emotional faces are i...

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Published inIEEE transactions on haptics Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 67 - 71
Main Authors Picard, D, Jouffrais, C, Lebaz, S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States IEEE 01.01.2011
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Accuracy
Adults
Blinds
Classification
Cognitive science
Computer Science
Correlation
Emerging Technologies
Emotions
Facial features
Haptic interfaces
Haptics
human information processing
Human-Computer Interaction
Humans
perception
Pictures
Psychology
Recognition
Tasks
Time factors
Visualization
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Summary:15 sighted and 15 congenitally blind adults were to classify raised-line pictures of emotional faces through haptics. Whereas accuracy did not vary significantly between the two groups, the blind adults were faster at the task. These results suggest that raised-line pictures of emotional faces are intelligible to blind adults.
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ISSN:1939-1412
2329-4051
DOI:10.1109/TOH.2010.58