Analysis of navigation assistants for blind and visually impaired people: A systematic review

S Khan, S Nazir, HU Khan - IEEE access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last few decades, the development in the field of navigation and routing devices
has become a hindering task for the researchers to develop smart and intelligent guiding …

Wayfinding tools for people with visual impairments in real-world settings: a literature review of recent studies

AT Parker, M Swobodzinski, JD Wright… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A review of 35 peer reviewed articles dated from 2016 to February, 2021 was conducted to
identify and describe the types of wayfinding devices that people who are blind, visually …

Multimodal sensing and intuitive steering assistance improve navigation and mobility for people with impaired vision

P Slade, A Tambe, MJ Kochenderfer - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
Globally, more than 250 million people have impaired vision and face challenges navigating
outside their homes, affecting their independence, mental health, and physical health …

Vrbubble: Enhancing peripheral awareness of avatars for people with visual impairments in social virtual reality

TF Ji, B Cochran, Y Zhao - Proceedings of the 24th International ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
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) …

Pathfinder: Designing a map-less navigation system for blind people in unfamiliar buildings

M Kuribayashi, T Ishihara, D Sato… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

" I am the follower, also the boss": Exploring Different Levels of Autonomy and Machine Forms of Guiding Robots for the Visually Impaired

Y Zhang, Z Li, H Guo, L Wang, Q Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Guiding robots, in the form of canes or cars, have recently been explored to assist blind and
low vision (BLV) people. Such robots can provide full or partial autonomy when guiding …

Virtual navigation for blind people: Transferring route knowledge to the real-World

J Guerreiro, D Sato, D Ahmetovic, E Ohn-Bar… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Independent navigation is challenging for blind people, particularly in unfamiliar
environments. Navigation assistive technologies try to provide additional support by guiding …

" I Want to Figure Things Out": Supporting Exploration in Navigation for People with Visual Impairments

G Jain, Y Teng, DH Cho, Y Xing, M Aziz… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Navigation assistance systems (NASs) aim to help visually impaired people (VIPs) navigate
unfamiliar environments. Most of today's NASs support VIPs via turn-by-turn navigation, but …

Corridor-Walker: Mobile indoor walking assistance for blind people to avoid obstacles and recognize intersections

M Kuribayashi, S Kayukawa, J Vongkulbhisal… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
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 …

A survey on recent advances in AI and vision-based methods for helping and guiding visually impaired people

H Walle, C De Runz, B Serres, G Venturini - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
We present in this paper the state of the art and an analysis of recent research work and
achievements performed in the domain of AI-based and vision-based systems for helping …