How well do you see what you hear?: Michael Proulx at TEDxBathUniversity

Michael Proulx has been investigating new technologies that will help blind and visually impaired people participate more fully in the visual world. His research focuses on unveiling how our senses interact to represent the world and the impact of blindness on cognition. Much of his work has used a 'sensory-substitution' device (called 'The vOICe') that provides visual information by translating visual input into sound. His talk will describe his work on how blindness can reveal what it means to see, and the development of technology to allow the visually impaired to see with sound.

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