[HTML][HTML] Navigation systems for the blind and visually impaired: Past work, challenges, and open problems

S Real, A Araujo - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Over the last decades, the development of navigation devices capable of guiding the blind
through indoor and/or outdoor scenarios has remained a challenge. In this context, this …

Enabling appropriate personnel skill-mix for progressive realization of equitable access to assistive technology

EM Smith, RJ Gowran, H Mannan… - Disability and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background and Methods: This paper reviews the current capacity of personnel in
enabling access to assistive technology (AT) as well as the systems and processes within …

Guide dog versus robot dog: Assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed …

BL Due - Mobilities, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Guide dogs are sense-able agents that can assist Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) to
achieve mobility. But could a guide dog be replaced by a robot dog? Based on video …

Achieving practical and accurate indoor navigation for people with visual impairments

D Ahmetovic, M Murata, C Gleason, E Brady… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Methods that provide accurate navigation assistance to people with visual impairments often
rely on instrumenting the environment with specialized hardware infrastructure. In particular …

A walk in the park with Robodog: Navigating around pedestrians using a spot robot as a “guide dog”

BL Due - Space and Culture, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores how visually impaired people (VIP) navigate around (a) stationary
people and (b) moving people, when guided by the Boston Dynamics' robotic “dog” and its …

[HTML][HTML] Relative vibrotactile spatial acuity of the torso

ÓI Jóhannesson, R Hoffmann, VV Valgeirsdóttir… - Experimental brain …, 2017 - Springer
While tactile acuity for pressure has been extensively investigated, far less is known about
acuity for vibrotactile stimulation. Vibrotactile acuity is important however, as such …

Assistive technology solutions for aiding travel of pedestrians with visual impairment

P Chanana, R Paul, M Balakrishnan… - … of rehabilitation and …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Smartphone-based inertial odometry for blind walkers

P Ren, F Elyasi, R Manduchi - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pedestrian tracking systems implemented in regular smartphones may provide a convenient
mechanism for wayfinding and backtracking for people who are blind. However, virtually all …

AR4VI: AR as an accessibility tool for people with visual impairments

JM Coughlan, J Miele - 2017 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although AR technology has been largely dominated by visual media, a number of AR tools
using both visual and auditory feedback have been developed specifically to assist people …

Orientation and mobility outcome measures

KJ Chang, LL Dillon, L Deverell… - Clinical and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite orientation and mobility (O&M) being a significant factor determining quality of life of
people with low vision or blindness, there are no gold standard measures or agreement on …