VRiAssist: An Eye-Tracked Virtual Reality Low Vision Assistance Tool

We present VRiAssist, an eye-tracking-based visual assistance tool designed to help people with visual impairments interact with virtual reality environments. VRiAssist's visual enhancements dynamically follow a user's gaze to project corrections on the affected area of the user's eye...

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Published in2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) pp. 809 - 810
Main Authors Masnadi, Sina, Williamson, Brian, Gonzalez, Andres N. Vargas, LaViola, Joseph J.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.2020
Subjects
Accessibility
Accessibility design and evaluation methods
Accessibility technologies
Brightness
Distortion
Human-centered computing
Image color analysis
Lenses
Retina
Visualization
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Summary:We present VRiAssist, an eye-tracking-based visual assistance tool designed to help people with visual impairments interact with virtual reality environments. VRiAssist's visual enhancements dynamically follow a user's gaze to project corrections on the affected area of the user's eyes. VRiAssist provides a distortion correction tool to revert the distortions created by bumps on the retina, a color/brightness correction tool that improves contrast and color perception, and an adjustable magnification tool. The results of a small 5 person user study indicate that VRiAssist helped users see better in the virtual environment depending on their level of visual impairment.
DOI:10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00255