The present article explores tourist attractions that include touch as a significant component of the tourist’s place-related experience. We have chosen to label this phenomenon “tactile tourism”. tradition touching is not new but has been central part experience specific interests for long time. However, despite its frequent and often presence in destinations, few studies tourism research stud...

The paper presents a joint research activity of specialists on digital maps and specialistseducation of the blind. The authors seek to evaluate and develop aspects of interpretation and perception of geospace by modern tactile maps based on 3D printing. There are three newly introduced types of tactile maps (all coloured). Map of type A is a tactile map printed by 3D printing technology (Contex...

Recently Sekuler et al. [1] investigated the motion-bounce illusion and found that sound can influence ambiguous visual motion perception. Here we investigated the motionbounce illusion in the tactile-auditory and the tactile-visual domain. Using a vibro-tactile belt consisting of 7 vibrators we generated tactile apparent motion stimuli by sequentially activating neighboring motors with an onse...