4 papers
"I didn't know how to read a map, but now I can": TouchingSpace, an Audio-Haptic Map for Blind and Low-Vision Readers
Li Liu, Yihe Wang, Jiaming Qu +3
Accessible map systems either make a layout explorable by hand or convey information through speech; few combine both to support pre-travel spatial understanding for blind and low-…
From Anonymous Shapes to Named Places: A Tool for Braille and Place-Semantic Annotation of Tactile Maps
Li Liu, Ashmita Dua, Jiaming Qu +2
On a 3D-printed tactile map, a building felt under the finger is an anonymous shape: touch alone cannot tell which footprint is which, and a spoken description cannot reliably poin…
AGWM: Affordance-Grounded World Models for Environments with Compositional Prerequisites
Qinshi Zhang, Weipeng Deng, Zhihan Jiang +4
In model-based learning, the agent learns behaviors by simulating trajectories based on world model predictions. Standard world models typically learn a stationary transition funct…
Touching Space: Accessible Map Exploration Through Conversational Audio-Haptic Interaction
Li Liu, Jiaming Qu, Marc Jowell Bagaoisan +2
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 u…