Study Project: Sensory augmentation and grasping movements (Part I)

Making blind people grasp

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Beschreibung

Why? Recent advances in computational object recognition, robotics, and machine learning, combined with the miniaturization of hardware, offer many opportunities for digital personal assistance. If there are self-driving cars soon, why not use similar camera-based approaches to assist humans in everyday tasks, like shopping and wayfinding? Especially for seniors and those with mild to severe impairments, technology can be the key to self-determined partaking in society.

How? Today, we have a tactile navigation belt for the blind that makes them feel orientation and navigation cues, utilizing vibration around the waist [1]. Tomorrow, we want to offer the individual user situationally adapted assistance in real-time for various everyday tasks like shopping in the local supermarket [2]. For this, the team will be using cutting-edge approaches of deep-neural-network-based object recognition, combined with tactile displays as the user interface and psychophysical tests for validation of the approach.

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Keshava A, Nezami FN, Neumann H, Izdebski K, Schüler Th, König P (2022) Low-level Action Schemas Support Gaze Guidance Behavior for Action Planning and Execution in Novel Tasks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.29.428782v3

Weitere Angaben

Ort: 50/E07
Zeiten: Mo. 10:00 - 12:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Montag, 17.04.2023 10:00 - 12:00, Ort: 50/E07
Veranstaltungsart: Studienprojekt (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)

Studienbereiche

• Cognitive Science > Master-Programm