Experience of Tactile Vision

Abstract

The accompanying paper was written following a three-week training course with the Tactile Vision Substitution System (TVSS) under development at the Department of Visual Sciences, University of the Pacific, San Francisco. The instrumentation has been described elsewhere by Collins and Madey (1974) and perceptual studies and underlying theory by Bach-y-Rita et al. (1969), White et al. (1970), and Bach-y-Rita (1972). The present paper is a personal account that provides insight into a perceptual aspect of sensory substitution studies.