mathieu.simonnet@orion-brest.com

Langue française / English Language

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PhD in sport psychology. Topic: spatial representation of blind sailors.

President of ORION association which aims at make sailing accesible to the blind people.

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The point of my research is to improve SeaTouch: a haptic and auditory maritime software for blind people’s navigation.

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Publications.

- M. Simonnet, S. Vieilledent, R.D. Jacobson and J. Tisseau. (In Press) The assessment of non visual maritime cognitive maps of a blind sailor. Journal of Maps. pp.1-13. (doi:10.4113/jom.2010.1087).
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- M. Simonnet, S. Vieilledent and J. Tisseau. (2010) Navigation performances of a blind sailor using a haptic and auditory cartographic system on board. Proceedings of Pervasive 2010: The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing. pp. 49-50. Helsinski, Finland.
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- M. Simonnet, R.D. Jacobson, S. Vieilledent and J. Tisseau. (2009) Can virtual reality provide digital maps to blind sailors? A case Study. In ICC09 : International conference of cartography. Santiago, Chile.
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- M. Simonnet, R.D. Jacobson, S. Vieilledent and J. Tisseau. (2009) SeaTouch: A Haptic and Auditory Maritime Environment for Non Visual Cognitive Mapping of Blind Sailors. In K. Stewart Hornsby et al. (Eds.): COSIT 2009, LNCS 5756, pp. 212–226. Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg.
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- M. Simonnet, S. Vieilledent, J. Tisseau and R.D. Jacobson. (2009) Can virtual reality provide maps to blind sailors? In VRIC'09 : Virtual Reality International Conference (Laval, 2009).
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- M. Simonnet, S. Vieilledent, J.-Y. Guinard and J. Tisseau. (2007) Can haptic maps contribute to spatial knowledge of blind sailors? In ENACTIVE'07 : International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (Grenoble, 2007), pp. 259-262.
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- M. Simonnet, R. D. Jacobson, J. Rowell. (2007) "Touch, Hear and Sea : A simulator for the blind sailor's geographical representation. In ICC07 : International conference of cartography. Moscow, Russia.
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- M. Simonnet, J.-Y. Guinard, J. Tisseau. (2006) Preliminary work for vocal and haptic navigation software for blind sailors. International Journal Of Disabilty and Human Developpement. 52 (2), pp.61-67.
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- M. Simonnet, J.-Y. Guinard, J. Tisseau. (2006) “Preliminary work for vocal and haptic navigation software for blind sailors” Proceedings of ICDVRAT (International Conference Series On Disability, Virtual Reality And Associated Technologies), Esbjerg Danmark.
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- M. Simonnet, J.-Y. Guinard, J. Tisseau. (2005) "Auditory and tactile modalities for a non visual representation: A blind sailing application", Proceedings of VIRTUAL CONCEPT 2005, Biarritz.
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