Head Related Transfer Function selection techniques applied to multimodal environments for spatial cognition

This thesis studies the pinna reflection model to extract the best possible HRTF for a user from a database. The performances of the selected HRTF are tested in a psychoacoustic experiment and compared with those recorded from KEMAR. This extraction increases the average performances in respect to the KEMAR. The selected HRTF is then integrated in a virtual multimodal environment together with the haptic device TAMO showing the relation and the benefit of audio in Orientation & Mobility tasks