Acoustic Cues for Wayfinding

Picture of artificial head, fitted with microphones, on a moving platform

Principal Investigator:

John Brabyn

Principal Investigator:

Helen J. Simon

Principal Investigator:

Deborah Gilden

It has long been known that good blind travelers use a variety of obvious and unobvious auditory cues to help them navigate, and we know that they include echolocation and sound shadows. This project is an attempt to gain more detailed information about the acoustic nature of the information they find so useful.