Abstract
Sound table tennis (also known as vision impaired table tennis, and abbreviated as STT) is one of the most internationally popular sports for visually impaired people. Since the players of STT cannot rely on visual information, they must grasp the game situation using their auditory sense. However, it is difficult, especially for STT beginners, to perceive the state of the game, including the positions of the opponents, and the direction and distance of the ball. Therefore, in this paper, we aim to develop an application that enables STT players, especially beginners, to train their acoustic sense to instantaneously recognize the direction and distance of the ball at the service phase hit by opponents without going to the gym. We implemented the application named AcouSTTic (Acoustic + STT), and then evaluated its training effectiveness.
T. Miura and M. Fujito—Both authors contributed equally to this manuscript.
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This study is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 15K01015 and 15K04540. Special thanks are due to the members of the STT circle in the Tsukuba University of Technology.
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Miura, T., Fujito, M., Matsuo, M., Sakajiri, M., Onishi, J., Ono, T. (2018). AcouSTTic: A Training Application of Acoustic Sense on Sound Table Tennis (STT). In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10897. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94274-2_1
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