The last decades a variety of portable or wearable navigation systems have been developed
to assist visually impaired people during navigation in known or unknown, indoor or outdoor …

This work systematically reviews the assistive technology solutions for pedestrians with
visual impairment and reveals that most of the existing solutions address a specific part of …

Mobility for the blind can be defined as the ability to move independently through the
environment with ease, speed and safety. With an estimate of 7 million people going blind …

This paper proposes a new product concept of an electronic travelling aid with haptic
perception for the visually impaired people. The device is much similar to the conventional …

Offering an alternative mode of interaction with the surrounding 3-D space to the visually
impaired for collision free navigation is a goal of great significance that includes several key …

The long cane and the dog guide, remain the most preferred methods by the blind people in
the mobility and navigation tasks. The long cane works efficiently because it extends the …

The need for assistive devices has, had and will have a large merit in many engineering
research arenas. This dissertation deals with the design, modeling, implementation and …

The reduced behavior for the exploration of volumetric data based on the virtual sectioning
concept was examined using three sonification techniques in the absence of visual …

Visually impaired people are faced with challenges in detecting information about terrain.
This paper presents a new walking support system for the blind to navigate without any …

The rehabilitation of a visually impaired person (VIP) is a systematic process where the
person is provided with tools that allow them to deal with the impairment to achieve personal …