Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
11 results found in Sensory Substitution.
- Active Perception (Active Sensing, Sensorimotor Exploration)
- A view of perception in which the perceiver is not a passive receiver of stimuli but an active agent who moves, orients, and manipulates the environment to gather the sensory information needed for a …
- Affective Haptics (Emotional Haptics)
- A subfield of haptic interaction design concerned with using tactile and kinaesthetic feedback — vibration, pressure, temperature, squeezing, stroking, heartbeat-like pulsation — to communicate, evoke…
- Audio-to-Haptics Translation (Audio-haptic translation, Audio-to-vibration conversion)
- A class of techniques that convert audio signals — either recordings of real-world interactions or AI-generated sounds — into vibrotactile patterns that can be rendered through actuators embedded in p…
- EyeMusic
- A visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device that converts images into sound, enabling people who are blind to perceive visual information including shape, location, and color. EyeMusic uses a lef…
- Haptic Icon (Hapticon)
- A short, structured vibrotactile or force pattern designed to carry meaning in the same way a graphical icon or audio earcon does, allowing users to recognize a category of information — an alert, mat…
- Haptic Rendering (Haptic display rendering)
- The process of computing and outputting touch-based signals — forces, vibrations, textures, or friction — so that a user can perceive virtual or remote objects through the sense of touch. Haptic rende…
- Material Perception (Material recognition)
- The perceptual processes by which people identify and characterize the materials that objects are made of — such as wood, metal, glass, leather, fabric, or stone — using visual, tactile, auditory, and…
- Tactile Dowsing
- An interaction technique that uses vibrotactile feedback to guide a user toward a target direction in space without visual cues. The term draws an analogy to water dowsing, where a divining rod suppos…
- The vOICe (vOICe)
- One of the earliest and most widely studied visual-to-auditory sensory substitution devices, developed by Peter Meijer in 1992. The vOICe converts camera images into sound by scanning left to right, m…
- Video-to-Haptics (Video to Haptics, V2H)
- A class of techniques that automatically generate haptic feedback (typically vibrotactile or force cues) from visual content in video, so that viewers feel sensations synchronised with what they see. …
- Visual Prosthetic (Visual Prosthesis, Vision Prosthetic)
- A device or system that provides visual information to people who are blind or have severe visual impairments through alternative sensory channels or direct neural stimulation. Visual prosthetics rang…