“Cherchons pour Voir” Lab
Common research lab IRIT / Institute for Blind Youth
We signed an agreement with the Institute for Young Blinds (CESDV-IJA) in Toulouse to create the Cherchons pour Voir lab.
Our goal is to build a lasting partnership with stakeholders (people with visual impairments, special education teachers, educators, families, caretakers, etc.)
“Cherchons pour Voir” lab aims to better understand the skills and capacities of people with visual impairments, as well as their needs. It also supports the participatory design of Assistive Technologies.
“Cherchons pour Voir” lab hosts two fully equipped labs for lab experiments on non-visual perception and evaluations of technologies with visually impaired subjects. We are also able to set-up real settings evaluations at the Institute for Blind Youth in Toulouse.
Experimental facilities at IRIT
Research equipment is installed in a large dark room equipped for experiments and evaluations
- Naturalpoint Optitrack : 12 caméras @ 100 hz; http://www.naturalpoint.com/optitrack
- ASL Eye tracker: Monocular 120 Hz
- Arrington Eyetracker + VR Helmet
- HMD-integrated 60 Hz eyetracking solution mounted on an nVisor SX60 HMD
- Multi touch surfaces: Immersion 41″, 3M 21″, ASUS tablets , Samsung tablets and smartphones, etc.
- Positioning and Mobility sensors
- Variety of GPS, Inertial Measurement Units, etc.
Blind and his dog participating to the evaluation of the NAVIG system 
Demonstration of DERi during the FAF days 
Design of tactile maps with special education teachers
Tactile Exploration of the Multimodal Interactive Map called DERi 
Experiment of Simulated Prosthetic Vision 
Best paper award with my co-author Stéphanie Giraud