U.S.-Australia Cooperative Research: Talking Maps - Tactile-Audio Maps and Graphics for the Blind and Visually Impaired

这一奖项将使加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的雷金纳德·G·戈莱奇博士能够在澳大利亚进行为期六周的研究。戈莱奇博士将与纽卡斯尔大学行为科学研究所的唐纳德·帕克斯教授合作，开发和制作供视力受损的人使用的“会说话的地图”，并建立一个关于盲目导航问题的实验研究计划。这家澳大利亚集团在“会说话的地图”领域拥有相当多的专业知识，并正在进行盲目导航领域的相关项目。这一奖项将促进合作研究的某些方面的完成，这些研究旨在寻找基于触觉的地图的替代品，并开发出实际制作“会说话的地图”的方法。

This award will enable Dr. Reginald G. Golledge of the University of California, Santa Barbara to conduct research in Australia for six weeks. Dr. Golledge will collaborate with Professor Donald Parkes of the Institute of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Newcastle on the development and production of "talking maps", for use by people with impaired vision, and to establish a program of experimental research on the problem of navigating without sight. The Australian group has considerable expertise in the area of "talking maps", and is pursuing related projects in the fields of navigation without sight. This award will facilitate the completion of some aspects of collaborative research aimed at finding replacements for maps based on the sense of touch, and on development of methods to actually produce a "talking map."