Wide-range auditory orientation training system for blind o&m

Abstract

Authors started to develop a training method that combined “sound localization” and “obstacle perception” by using acoustic virtual reality technologies for the orientation and mobility training for the blind people in 2003, and we finally developed an auditory orientation training system (AOTS) in 2005. As a modified version of AOTS, the first WR-AOTS was released April 2013 for the blind rehabilitation and/or education facilities. By January 2015, about 70 requests for use of it were received from the blind rehabilitation and/or education facilities. We will keep providing update on the facilities’ demands in future.