Tactile relief maps are used by visually impaired people to acquire mental representation of
space, but they retain important limitations (limited amount of information, braille text, etc.) …

Orientation and mobility are tremendous problems for Blind people. Assistive technologies
based on Global Positioning System (GPS) could provide them with a remarkable autonomy …

This article aims to revisit and to adapt the Norman's theory of action by focusing on the
design of interactive systems for disabled people. The background section demonstrates …

Visually impaired people face important challenges related to orientation and mobility.
Indeed, 56% of visually impaired people in France declared having problems concerning …

Finding ones way to an unknown destination, navigating complex routes, finding inanimate
objects; these are all tasks that can be challenging for the visually impaired. The project …

The vast majority of existing route selection processes is designed for vehicle navigation. In
this paper we describe an adapted routing algorithm for visually impaired pedestrians based …

Visually impaired people face important challenges related to orientation and mobility.
Accessible geographic maps are helpful for travel preparation. Historically, raised-line paper …

Orientation and mobility are amongst the most important challenges for visually impaired
people. Tactile maps can provide them with spatial knowledge of their environment, thereby …

With the spread of ICT and the Internet during the last two decades, more and more tools
rely on graphical interfaces that make them scarcely accessible to the visually impaired. The …

This article describes how accessibility to ICTs is understood as conformity to standards,
which usually ends in designs that do not consider the singularities of people. This article …