ArticleScientific reports2021
Full gaze contingency provides better reading performance than head steering alone in a simulation of prosthetic vision.
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- A systematic review of extended reality (XR) for understanding and augmenting vision loss.Journal of vision · 2023Pooled it
- Seeing anew: Mechanisms, outcomes, and challenges in adapting to restored sight via visual prostheses.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2026Review
- Motion perception with visual prostheses.Progress in biomedical engineering (Bristol, England) · 2026Review
- Point-SPV: end-to-end enhancement of object recognition in simulated prosthetic vision using synthetic viewing points.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
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- The Influence of Phosphene Synchrony in Driving Object Binding in a Simulation of Artificial Vision.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2023Article
- A novel simulation paradigm utilising MRI-derived phosphene maps for cortical prosthetic vision.Journal of neural engineering · 2023Article
- Attitudes of potential recipients toward emerging visual prosthesis technologies.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Reading text works better than watching videos to improve acuity in a simulation of artificial vision.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
The visual pathway is retinotopically organized and sensitive to gaze position, leading us to hypothesize that subjects using visual prostheses incorporating eye position would perform better on perceptual tasks than with devices that are merely head-steered. We had sighted subjects read sentences from the MNREAD corpus through a simulation of artificial vision under conditions of full gaze compensation, and head-steered viewing. With 2000 simulated phosphenes, subjects (n = 23) were immediately able to read under full gaze compensation and were assessed at an equivalent visual acuity of 1.0 logMAR, but were nearly unable to perform the task under head-steered viewing. At the largest font size tested, 1.4 logMAR, subjects read at 59 WPM (50% of normal speed) with 100% accuracy under the full-gaze condition, but at 0.7 WPM (under 1% of normal) with below 15% accuracy under head-steering. We conclude that gaze-compensated prostheses are likely to produce considerably better patient outcomes than those not incorporating eye movements.
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