Haptic Recognition of Emotions in Raised-Line Drawings by Congenitally Blind and Sighted Adults

Delphine Picard (1) , Christophe Jouffrais (2, 3, 4, 5) , Samuel Lebaz (6)

1 PsyCLÉ - Centre de Recherche en Psychologie de la Connaissance, du Langage et de l'Émotion
2 IRIT-ELIPSE - Etude de L’Interaction Personne SystèmE
3 IPAL - Image & Pervasive Access Lab
4 CPV - Laboratoire Cherchons Pour Voir
5 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
6 Octogone - Octogone Unité de Recherche Interdisciplinaire

15 sighted and 15 congenitally blind adults were to classify raised-line pictures of emotional faces through haptics. Whereas accuracy did not vary significantly between the two groups, the blind adults were faster at the task. These results suggest that raised-line pictures of emotional faces are intelligible to blind adults.

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Technologies Émergeantes [cs.ET]; Sciences cognitives; Informatique; Psychologie

Delphine Picard, Christophe Jouffrais, Samuel Lebaz. Haptic Recognition of Emotions in Raised-Line Drawings by Congenitally Blind and Sighted Adults. IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH), 2011, 4 (1), pp.67-71. ⟨10.1109/TOH.2010.58⟩. ⟨hal-02926530⟩