An insight into smartphone-based assistive solutions for visually impaired and blind people: issues, challenges and opportunities

A Khan, S Khusro - Universal Access in the Information Society, 2021 - Springer
Blind people are confronting a number of challenges in performing activities of daily life such
as reading labels on a product, identification of currency notes, exploring unknown spaces …

[HTML][HTML] Haptic wearables as sensory replacement, sensory augmentation and trainer–a review

PB Shull, DD Damian - Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 2015 - Springer
Sensory impairments decrease quality of life and can slow or hinder rehabilitation. Small,
computationally powerful electronics have enabled the recent development of wearable …

NavCog: a navigational cognitive assistant for the blind

D Ahmetovic, C Gleason, C Ruan, K Kitani… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Turn-by-turn navigation is a useful paradigm for assisting people with visual impairments
during mobility as it reduces the cognitive load of having to simultaneously sense, localize …

Indoor human navigation systems: A survey

N Fallah, I Apostolopoulos, K Bekris… - Interacting with …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Whereas outdoor navigation systems typically rely upon global positioning system (GPS),
indoor systems have to rely upon different techniques for localizing the user, as GPS signals …

Wearable assistive devices for the blind

R Velázquez - Wearable and Autonomous Biomedical Devices and …, 2010 - Springer
Assistive devices are a key aspect in wearable systems for biomedical applications, as they
represent potential aids for people with physical and sensory disabilities that might lead to …

BBeep: A sonic collision avoidance system for blind travellers and nearby pedestrians

S Kayukawa, K Higuchi, J Guerreiro… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We present an assistive suitcase system, BBeep, for supporting blind people when walking
through crowded environments. BBeep uses pre-emptive sound notifications to help clear a …

Graph model based indoor tracking

CS Jensen, H Lu, B Yang - 2009 Tenth International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The tracking of the locations of moving objects in large indoor spaces is important, as it
enables a range of applications related to, eg, security and indoor navigation and guidance …

RFID information grid for blind navigation and wayfinding

S Willis, S Helal - Ninth IEEE International Symposium on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe a navigation and location determination system for the blind using an RFID tag
grid. Each RFID tag is programmed upon installation with spatial coordinates and …

Wearable olfactory display: Using odor in outdoor environment

T Yamada, S Yokoyama, T Tanikawa… - IEEE Virtual Reality …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, there are various types of display systems that can present aural, visual and haptic
information related to the user's position. It is also important to present olfactory information …

A review of assistive spatial orientation and navigation technologies for the visually impaired

H Fernandes, P Costa, V Filipe, H Paredes… - Universal Access in the …, 2019 - Springer
The overall objective of this work is to review the assistive technologies that have been
proposed by researchers in recent years to address the limitations in user mobility posed by …