A system assisting blind children to acquire spatial awareness through body movement

This paper presents a system which helps blind children learn spatial awareness. A blind child searches objects located in a room, and remembers their relative location. After he or she reproduces the objects´ arrangement on a table by using blocks, the blocks´ position obtained by image processing is compared with the objects´ location. If blocks aren´t correctly located, the system informs which block to be adjusted toward which direction. Repealing the search and reproduction with the interactive assist of the system, blind children will be able to learn spatial awareness through their body movement; learning space by motion