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| Title | Supporting the Movement of Blind People in Indoor Environments |
| Authors | Luis A. Guerrero, Francisco Vásquez, Sergio Ochoa |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Abstract | Moving into indoor and outdoor environments can be a serious problem for blind people, especially if they are visiting those spaces for the first time. In this paper we present a system that supports blind people while walking in indoor environments. The system determines the position of a person in a physical space and calculates the velocity and direction of their movements. Using this information, the system determines the user?s trajectory, identifies possible obstacles in that route offering navigation information to the user that helps in avoiding the obstacles. The navigation information is delivered through voice messages sent to a smartphone carried by the blind person. These users must utilize a special white cane, which is an augmented object, to interact with the proposed system. The preliminary results indicate that the system would be able to guide users through a built environment that includes obstacles. |
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| Conference name | International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag (Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany) |
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