Portable traveling navigation system for the blind and its application to traveling training system

Author

Tadokoro, Y. ; Takuno, S. ; Shimoda, Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Toyohashi Univ. of Technol., Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Abstract

We propose a portable traveling navigation system to guide the blind to the desired destination, and apply it to the traveling training system. A microcomputer carried by a traveller calculates a traveling locus using the traveling distance and direction and compares it with the stored traveling route. Based on the compared results the appropriate guide voices are given to the traveller

Keywords

computer based training; computerised navigation; handicapped aids; blind person aid; buzzer; computerized travel aid; guide voice; micro-loudspeaker; microcomputer; portable traveling navigation system; stored traveling route; traveling direction; traveling distance; traveling locus; traveling training system; voice memory; Application software; Biomedical computing; Joining processes; Legged locomotion; Magnetic sensors; Microcomputers; Mobile computing; Navigation; Portable computers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.802667

Filename

802667