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“Musical Exercise” for people with visual impairments: A preliminary study with the blindfolded
“Musical Exercise” for people with visual impairments: A preliminary study with the blindfolded
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Khan, Ridwan Ahmed
Jeon, Myounghoon
Yoon, Tejin
Jeon, Myounghoon
Yoon, Tejin
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Abstract
Performing independent physical exercise is critical to
maintain one's good health, but it is specifically hard for people
with visual impairments. To address this problem, we have
developed a Musical Exercise platform for people with visual
impairments so that they can perform exercise in a good form
consistently. We designed six different conditions, including
blindfolded or visual without audio conditions, and blindfolded
or visual with two different types of audio feedback
(continuous vs. discrete) conditions. Eighteen sighted
participants participated in the experiment, by doing two
exercises - squat and wall sit with all six conditions. The results
show that Musical Exercise is a usable exercise assistance
system without any adverse effect on exercise completion time
or perceived workload. Also, the results show that with a
specific sound design (i.e., discrete), participants in the
blindfolded condition can do exercise as consistently as
participants in the non-blindfolded condition. This implies that
not all sounds equally work and thus, care is required to refine
auditory displays. Potentials and limitations of Musical
Exercise and future works are discussed with the results.
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2018-06
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