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| author | Liu, Li Qu, Jiaming Bagaoisan, Marc Jowell Lee, David T. Gilpin, Leilani H. |
| author_facet | Liu, Li Qu, Jiaming Bagaoisan, Marc Jowell Lee, David T. Gilpin, Leilani H. |
| contents | Most existing assistive navigation tools focus on providing real-time guidance for Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) people, but few support building a holistic spatial understanding of unfamiliar environments before travel. Such cognitive map construction (e.g., knowing that a fountain is south of a tower and west of a hotel) is important for pre-travel planning, yet remains underexplored in prior work. To address this gap, we present Touching Space, an end-to-end system that retrieves map data for a target place and loads it into a frontend interface for exploration. The system combines haptic and audio feedback: users explore spatial layouts through touch and ask spoken questions to a conversational agent during exploration. Touching Space contributes a conversational interface that supports BLV users in building cognitive maps on commodity hardware. |
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| spellingShingle | Touching Space: Accessible Map Exploration Through Conversational Audio-Haptic Interaction Liu, Li Qu, Jiaming Bagaoisan, Marc Jowell Lee, David T. Gilpin, Leilani H. Human-Computer Interaction Most existing assistive navigation tools focus on providing real-time guidance for Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) people, but few support building a holistic spatial understanding of unfamiliar environments before travel. Such cognitive map construction (e.g., knowing that a fountain is south of a tower and west of a hotel) is important for pre-travel planning, yet remains underexplored in prior work. To address this gap, we present Touching Space, an end-to-end system that retrieves map data for a target place and loads it into a frontend interface for exploration. The system combines haptic and audio feedback: users explore spatial layouts through touch and ask spoken questions to a conversational agent during exploration. Touching Space contributes a conversational interface that supports BLV users in building cognitive maps on commodity hardware. |
| title | Touching Space: Accessible Map Exploration Through Conversational Audio-Haptic Interaction |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14637 |