Indoor positioning and wayfinding systems: a survey

J Kunhoth, AG Karkar, S Al-Maadeed… - Human-centric Computing …, 2020‏ - Springer
Navigation systems help users access unfamiliar environments. Current technological
advancements enable users to encapsulate these systems in handheld devices, which …

[HTML][HTML] Navigation systems for the blind and visually impaired: Past work, challenges, and open problems

S Real, A Araujo - Sensors, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Over the last decades, the development of navigation devices capable of guiding the blind
through indoor and/or outdoor scenarios has remained a challenge. In this context, this …

An outlook into the future of egocentric vision

C Plizzari, G Goletto, A Furnari, S Bansal… - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - Springer
What will the future be? We wonder! In this survey, we explore the gap between current
research in egocentric vision and the ever-anticipated future, where wearable computing …

Wearable assistive devices for visually impaired: A state of the art survey

R Tapu, B Mocanu, T Zaharia - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Recent statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO), published in October 2017,
estimate that more than 253 million people worldwide suffer from visual impairment (VI) with …

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 …

IDOL: Inertial deep orientation-estimation and localization

S Sun, D Melamed, K Kitani - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2021‏ - ojs.aaai.org
Many smartphone applications use inertial measurement units (IMUs) to sense movement,
but the use of these sensors for pedestrian localization can be challenging due to their noise …

BBeep: A sonic collision avoidance system for blind travellers and nearby pedestrians

S Kayukawa, K Higuchi, J Guerreiro… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - dl.acm.org
We present an assistive suitcase system, BBeep, for supporting blind people when walking
through crowded environments. BBeep uses pre-emptive sound notifications to help clear a …

Smartphone-based indoor localization for blind navigation across building complexes

M Murata, D Ahmetovic, D Sato… - 2018 IEEE …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuous and accurate smartphone-based localization is a promising technology for
supporting independent mobility of people with visual impairments. However, despite …

A review of cognitive assistants for healthcare: Trends, prospects, and future directions

SM Preum, S Munir, M Ma, MS Yasar… - ACM Computing …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Healthcare cognitive assistants (HCAs) are intelligent systems or agents that interact with
users in a context-aware and adaptive manner to improve their health outcomes by …

Hacking, switching, combining: understanding and supporting DIY assistive technology design by blind people

J Herskovitz, A Xu, R Alharbi, A Guo - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Existing assistive technologies (AT) often fail to support the unique needs of blind and
visually impaired (BVI) people. Thus, BVI people have become domain experts in …