Synthetic Visual Sensations: Augmenting Human Spatial Awareness with a Wearable Retinal Electric Stimulation Device
AHs '24: Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference April 04–06, 2024, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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| author | Danry, Valdemar Munch Chicos, Laura Fonseca, Matheus Kazi, Ishraki Maes, Pattie |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1552012025-01-03T04:12:04Z Synthetic Visual Sensations: Augmenting Human Spatial Awareness with a Wearable Retinal Electric Stimulation Device Danry, Valdemar Munch Chicos, Laura Fonseca, Matheus Kazi, Ishraki Maes, Pattie Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Art, Culture and Technology AHs '24: Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference April 04–06, 2024, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Alternating current stimulation of the retina (rACS) can non-invasively induce visual sensations called phosphenes (bright flashes) in the visual field. We explore the use of rACS to elicit visual sensations and explore the use cases of "seeing" objects behind the user. We designed a wearable rACS system and conducted a study to understand the visual sensations we could elicit and their efficacy when applied to augmenting a user’s spatial awareness. We found that our device reliably generated synthetic sensations and, when applied in an object avoidance task, significantly augmented users’ awareness of objects approaching them from behind compared to users with no stimulation feedback. Our results demonstrate how future research can use electrical stimulation in wearable systems for sensory enhancement. 2024-06-06T15:33:35Z 2024-06-06T15:33:35Z 2024-04-04 2024-06-01T07:57:17Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 979-8-4007-0980-7 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155201 Danry, Valdemar Munch, Chicos, Laura, Fonseca, Matheus, Kazi, Ishraki and Maes, Pattie. 2024. "Synthetic Visual Sensations: Augmenting Human Spatial Awareness with a Wearable Retinal Electric Stimulation Device." PUBLISHER_CC en 10.1145/3652920.3652932 Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The author(s) application/pdf ACM Association for Computing Machinery |
| spellingShingle | Danry, Valdemar Munch Chicos, Laura Fonseca, Matheus Kazi, Ishraki Maes, Pattie Synthetic Visual Sensations: Augmenting Human Spatial Awareness with a Wearable Retinal Electric Stimulation Device |
| title | Synthetic Visual Sensations: Augmenting Human Spatial Awareness with a Wearable Retinal Electric Stimulation Device |
| title_full | Synthetic Visual Sensations: Augmenting Human Spatial Awareness with a Wearable Retinal Electric Stimulation Device |
| title_fullStr | Synthetic Visual Sensations: Augmenting Human Spatial Awareness with a Wearable Retinal Electric Stimulation Device |
| title_full_unstemmed | Synthetic Visual Sensations: Augmenting Human Spatial Awareness with a Wearable Retinal Electric Stimulation Device |
| title_short | Synthetic Visual Sensations: Augmenting Human Spatial Awareness with a Wearable Retinal Electric Stimulation Device |
| title_sort | synthetic visual sensations augmenting human spatial awareness with a wearable retinal electric stimulation device |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155201 |
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