• DocumentCode
    1885843
  • 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
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    24-27 April 2006
  • Firstpage
    1690
  • Lastpage
    1693
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2006. IMTC 2006. Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Sorrento
  • ISSN
    1091-5281
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9359-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1091-5281
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IMTC.2006.328198
  • Filename
    4124636