Technologies to access space without vision
some empirical facts and guiding theoretical principles
pp. 53-75
in: Edwige Pissaloux (ed), Mobility of visually impaired people, Berlin, Springer, 2018Abstract
A large number of technical devices attempt to help blind persons improve their spatial perception and facilitate their mobility . We wish to present here the principles on which these prosthetic perceptual devices function, the conditions of their appropriation, and the general perspectives they open concerning the role of technical objects and systems in the constitution of human experience.