An investigation into the effectiveness of using acoustic touch to assist people who are blind (IMAGE)

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An investigation into the effectiveness of using acoustic touch to assist people who are blind

Caption

A research team member who is blind uses acoustic touch to locate and reach for an item on the table.

Credit

Photo taken by Lil Deverell (co-author) at the Motion Platform and Mixed Reality Lab in Techlab at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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