NavStick: Making Video Games Blind-Accessible via the Ability to Look Around
summary
NavStick repurposes the right thumbstick to let blind players "look" around a 3D scene and announces objects via spatialized 3D sound from query direction, using a NavPie data structure to map slices of line-of-sight. A remote study comparing NavStick to a menu-based NavMenu finds stronger mental maps and more fun for spatial tasks, while NavMenu excels for simple presence queries so the tools complement each other. In an exploratory game test seven participants complete every level.
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