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
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