Title :
Haptic Recognition of Emotions in Raised-Line Drawings by Congenitally Blind and Sighted Adults
Author :
Picard, Delphine ; Jouffrais, Christophe ; Lebaz, Samuel
Author_Institution :
Octogone-ECCD, Univ. of Toulouse II, Toulouse, France
Abstract :
15 sighted and 15 congenitally blind adults were to classify raised-line pictures of emotional faces through haptics. Whereas accuracy did not vary significantly between the two groups, the blind adults were faster at the task. These results suggest that raised-line pictures of emotional faces are intelligible to blind adults.
Keywords :
emotion recognition; face recognition; haptic interfaces; medical image processing; vision defects; visual perception; congenitally blind adult; emotion recognition; emotional faces; haptics; raised-line drawings; raised-line pictures; sighted adult; Psychology; human information processing; perception.;
Journal_Title :
Haptics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TOH.2010.58
