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An Interactive Game Using Wii Remote for Visually Impaired People

Authors:
Huai-Yong Deng
Hsiao Ping Lee
Jun-Te Huang

Keywords: Visual Impairment People; Somatosensory Device; Interactive Game; Text-to-Speech

Abstract:
Number of visually impaired people around the world is increasing year by year. However, companies that develop the games for visually impaired people are very few. For the visually impaired people, we have to create a fair environment, and enhance their entertainment. In recent years, somatosensory device has been introduced. Through the body to control the game is more attractive than the traditional joystick. In this paper, we design an interactive game for the visually impaired people, through somatosensory device and infrared-gun, and combined with Text-to-Speech technology to implement a flash game for the visually impaired people's to enhance entertainment quality of daily life. We invited five subjects to play this game, and complete a questionnaire and interview after the experiment. Our questionnaire divided into three parts: interested, audio guide and novelty of the game. The results showed that most subjects were very interested in interactive games. Through Text-to-Speech technology, most of the subjects were able to smoothly play the game with audio guide. A lot

Pages: 20 to 23

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-202-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012