III. Building Cognitive Models for “Touch Enabled” or Haptic Images for non-Visual or Autism or Cognitively or Sensory Challenged Individuals


A teacher instructs a child using virtual realtiy

Caption: An adult teacher, who is blind, teaches a six year old girl to form a mental image of 3 dimensional Virtual Reality geography through audio descriptions, and by guiding her hands. The young girl then travels through the Virtual Reality 3-D world to build the image in her mind through her other senses of praxis and motion.