Quantifying the impact on navigation performance in visually impaired: Auditory information loss versus information gain enabled through electronic travel aids

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 13; no. 4; p. e0196156
• Main Authors: Kreilinger, Alex, Georgi, Thomas, Pregartner, Gudrun, Ivastinovic, Domagoj, Pichler, Tamara, Berghold, Andrea, Velikay-Parel, Michaela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 26.04.2018; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Activities of daily living; Analysis; Animal navigation; Behavior; Biology and Life Sciences; Blindness; Contact angle; Head movement; Health informatics; Hearing; Medicine and Health Sciences; Navigational aids; Orientation; Orientation behavior; Physiological aspects; Sensory integration; Social Sciences; Travel; Vision; Visual impairment; Visually impaired persons; Austria

This study's purpose was to analyze and quantify the impact of auditory information loss versus information gain provided by electronic travel aids (ETAs) on navigation performance in people with low vision. Navigation performance of ten subjects (age: 54.9±11.2 years) with visual acuities >...