Title :
A Navigation System for Visually Impaired
Author :
Cecelja, Franjo ; Garaj, Vanja ; Hunaiti, Ziad ; Balachandran, Wamadewa
Author_Institution :
Sch. Of Eng. & Design, Brunel Univ., Uxbridge
Abstract :
Mobility, that is, the ability to move and change location is a necessity of life. If one´s mobility is limited, the level of quality of life is significantly lower. Visual impairment offers a serious restriction in mobility. Along with a very established aid in a form of the guide dogs and the canes, the numbers of aids were proposed to date. None of them, however, were widely accepted by visually impaired community primarily due to their limited improvement over existing aids and usually complex operation. In this paper we present a novel navigation system for visually impaired pedestrians that aim to overcome afore mentioned problems with existing systems. This system was designed using the latest user oriented methodology and thoroughly tested
Keywords :
handicapped aids; navigation; navigation system; pedestrian navigation; visual impairment; Dead reckoning; Design engineering; Dogs; Geographic Information Systems; Global Positioning System; Humans; Instrumentation and measurement; Mobile communication; Navigation; System testing; pedestrian navigation; visual impairment;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2006. IMTC 2006. Proceedings of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sorrento
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9359-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1091-5281
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.2006.328198