Wi-Fi fingerprint-based indoor positioning: Recent advances and comparisons

S He, SHG Chan - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing commercial interest in indoor location-based services (ILBS) has spurred
recent development of many indoor positioning techniques. Due to the absence of Global …

A systematic review of urban navigation systems for visually impaired people

FEZ El-Taher, A Taha, J Courtney, S Mckeever - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Blind and Visually impaired people (BVIP) face a range of practical difficulties when
undertaking outdoor journeys as pedestrians. Over the past decade, a variety of assistive …

An empirical study of latency in an emerging class of edge computing applications for wearable cognitive assistance

Z Chen, W Hu, J Wang, S Zhao, B Amos, G Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
An emerging class of interactive wearable cognitive assistance applications is poised to
become one of the key demonstrators of edge computing infrastructure. In this paper, we …

FEMO: A platform for free-weight exercise monitoring with RFIDs

H Ding, L Shangguan, Z Yang, J Han, Z Zhou… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Regular free-weight exercise helps to strengthen the body's natural movements and
stabilize muscles that are important to strength, balance, and posture of human beings. Prior …

Virtual navigation for blind people: Transferring route knowledge to the real-World

J Guerreiro, D Sato, D Ahmetovic, E Ohn-Bar… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Independent navigation is challenging for blind people, particularly in unfamiliar
environments. Navigation assistive technologies try to provide additional support by guiding …

Dynamic crosswalk scene understanding for the visually impaired

S Tian, M Zheng, W Zou, X Li… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Independent mobility poses a great challenge to the visually impaired individuals. This
paper proposes a novel system to understand dynamic crosswalk scenes, which detects the …

Finding a store, searching for a product: a study of daily challenges of low vision people

S Szpiro, Y Zhao, S Azenkot - … of the 2016 ACM International Joint …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Visual impairments encompass a range of visual abilities. People with low vision have
functional vision and thus their experiences are likely to be different from people with no …

The social network: How people with visual impairment use mobile phones in kibera, Kenya

G Barbareschi, C Holloway, K Arnold… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Living in an informal settlement with a visual impairment can be very challenging resulting in
social exclusion. Mobile phones have been shown to be hugely beneficial to people with …

Route planning for blind pedestrians using OpenStreetMap

A Cohen, S Dalyot - … and Planning B: Urban Analytics and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
While most of us take wayfinding and orientation for granted, instinctively utilizing our visual
channels to do so, millions of blind people around the world face challenges and obstacles …

Investigating drone motion as pedestrian guidance

A Colley, L Virtanen, P Knierim, J Häkkilä - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Flying drones have the potential to act as navigation guides for pedestrians, providing more
direct guidance than the use of handheld devices. Rather than equip** a drone with a …