Blind people are confronting a number of challenges in performing activities of daily life such
as reading labels on a product, identification of currency notes, exploring unknown spaces …

The overall objective of this work is to review the assistive technologies that have been
proposed by researchers in recent years to address the limitations in user mobility posed by …

Whereas outdoor navigation systems typically rely upon global positioning system (GPS),
indoor systems have to rely upon different techniques for localizing the user, as GPS signals …

This paper begins by reviewing the motivation for an informatics of indoor space. It then
discusses application domains and consider why current geospatial technology, with its …

The growing share of the population over the age of 65 is putting pressure on the social
health insurance system, especially on institutions that provide long-term care services for …

This paper presents a graph-based spatial model which can serve as a reference for guiding
pedestrians inside buildings. We describe a systematic approach to construct the model …

The rapid growth in the technological advancements of the smartphone industry has
classified contemporary smartphones as a low-cost and high quality indoor positioning tools …

Physical disability is an obstacle to those who suffer with such, as it deprives the individual
from participating in routine activities, without relying on the help of others. Although the …

As a result of the rapid development of smartphone-based indoor localization technology,
location-based services in indoor spaces have become a topic of interest. However, to date …

Over the last few decades, semi-autonomous machine's technology started to promote
awareness towards the importance of human–robot interaction (HRI) for improving daily …