Title :
Basic Study on Presenting Distance Information to the Blind for Navigation
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Life Sci. & Syst. Eng., Kyushu Inst. of Technol., Kitakyushu, Japan
Abstract :
Most electronic travel aids for the visually impaired and blind persons use voice instruction to inform the device users of the distance to the destination. However, presentation method of voice instruction have not been designed by taking into account the specific characteristics of human cognition, and so users sometimes would be confused. Then, in this paper, we would like to investigate optimal presentation method. From the results, we proposed a new distance-presentation method by voice instruction and revealed its efficacy.
Keywords :
cognition; handicapped aids; navigation; blind navigation; distance information presentation; distance-presentation method; human cognition; voice instruction presentation method; Cognition; Computer aided instruction; Control systems; Humans; Leg; Legged locomotion; Navigation; Position measurement; Systems engineering and theory; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
Innovative Computing, Information and Control (ICICIC), 2009 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kaohsiung
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5543-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICICIC.2009.123
