Technologies and techniques of location and navigation are advancing, allowing greater
precision in locating people in complex and challenging conditions. These advances have …

Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational technology aiding
people with visual impairments (VI) through real-time video chat communication with sighted …

Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational assistive technology for
people with visual impairments (VI), where remote sighted agents provide realtime …

Social Virtual Reality (VR) is growing for remote socialization and collaboration. However,
current social VR applications are not accessible to people with visual impairments (PVI) …

Indoor navigation systems with prebuilt maps have shown great potential in navigating blind
people even in unfamiliar buildings. However, blind people cannot always benefit from them …

During the past years, the development of assistive technologies for visually impaired
(VI)/blind people has helped address various challenges in their lives by providing services …

Navigating in an indoor corridor can be challenging for blind people as they have to be
aware of obstacles while also having to recognize the intersections that lead to the …

We present a guiding system to help blind people walk in public spaces while making their
walking seamless with nearby pedestrians. Blind users carry a rolling suitcase-shaped …

Standing in line is one of the most common social behaviors in public spaces but can be
challenging for blind people. We propose an assistive system named LineChaser, which …

Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational assistive service, where
remote sighted workers, ie, agents, provide real-time assistance to blind users via video-chat …