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The study reported by this article was based on previous studies about the development of assistive technology for visually impaired athletes and aimed to evaluate a tracking topology that can be applied for the location and orientation of visually impaired on Paralympic Athletics. The paper presents the tracking topology and its integration in a trajectory monitoring system able to provide vibratory stimulus to visually impaired athletes. Moreover, the paper also presents the results of an experiment that was set up to evaluate a trajectory monitoring system prototype by eight visually impaired athletes when performing their training activities.
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This research was supported by the CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and the resources of the CICARI Lab (Control, Automation and Industrial Robotics Center), Manaus, Brazil. The publication was financially supported by National Funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project UI IEETA: UID/CEC/00127/2020.
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Júnior, L.A.Q.C. et al. (2021). A Tracking Topology to Support a Trajectory Monitoring System Directed at Helping Visually Impaired on Paralympic Athletics. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Ramalho Correia, A.M. (eds) Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1368. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72654-6_17
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