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In recent years researchers have started developing force feedback interfaces, which permit blind people not only to access bi-dimensional graphic interfaces (as was the case until now), but in addition to access information present on 3D Virtual Reality interfaces anticipating that the latter will be the natural form of information interchange in the very near future (Burdea, 1994).
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Tzovaras, D., Nikolakis, G., Fergadis, G., Malassiotis, S., Stavrakis, M. (2002). Virtual Environments for the Training of the Visually Impaired. In: Keates, S., Langdon, P., Clarkson, P.J., Robinson, P. (eds) Universal Access and Assistive Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3719-1_15
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