Navigation Assistive Application for the Visually Impaired People

Luchsheva, Oksana; Turkin, Ihor; Luchshev, Pavlo

doi:10.1109/dessert50317.2020.9125013

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“…It uses a tagged door, color, pattern, or building geometry for indoor navigation. Although it contributes to navigation in an indoor environment, it requires a customized infrastructure and a web server, making it an expensive option [40].…”

Section: Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smartphone-Based Cognitive Assistance of Blind People in Room Recognition and Awareness

Ullah

Khusro

Khan

et al. 2022

Mobile Information Systems

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Blind people face multiple challenges in performing their daily activities, such as localization, navigation, and communication with other people following the social status of the ambient environment. The outdoor navigation and localization are mitigated through assistive technologies, such as white cane, smartphones, and Global Positioning System (GPS). However, little attention has been paid to assisting a blind person in judging the room environment, occupants in a room, communicating with an intended person, social status, and so on. This study attempts to provide cognitive assistance to blind people in predicting room types and finding the intended person to communicate their message by understanding their ambient environment and social status in terms of their age, gender, and the number of people inside a room. The proposed solution uses the microphone and speaker to recognize room types and a camera for understanding the ambient environment and social status. The information is conveyed to the blind person through haptic feedback. We analyzed different evaluation metrics, including the movement of people, ambient sounds, orientation, and position. We conducted an extensive user study to validate the proposed solution in real-world scenarios and achieved 87.64% accuracy in room type recognition in 11 rooms, 64.57% gender recognition, 61.73% age group, and 61.71% correctly identified the number of people.

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Section: Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smartphone-Based Cognitive Assistance of Blind People in Room Recognition and Awareness

Ullah

Khusro

Khan

et al. 2022

Mobile Information Systems

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“…In another study [25], the authors created an application that assisted visually impaired people to navigate easily using public transportation. Another paper [26] presented a methodology that identified banknotes.…”

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Blind and Visually Impaired User Interface to Solve Accessibility Problems

Shera¹,

Iqbal²,

Shahzad³

et al. 2021

Intelligent Automation &Amp; Soft Computing

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Accessible wayfinding and navigation: a systematic mapping study

Prandi

Mirri

Fogli

2021

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Urban environments, university campuses, and public and private buildings often present architectural barriers that prevent people with disabilities and special needs to move freely and independently. This paper presents a systematic mapping study of the scientific literature proposing devices, and software applications aimed at fostering accessible wayfinding and navigation in indoor and outdoor environments. We selected 111 out of 806 papers published in the period 2009–2020, and we analyzed them according to different dimensions: at first, we surveyed which solutions have been proposed to address the considered problem; then, we analyzed the selected papers according to five dimensions: context of use, target users, hardware/software technologies, type of data sources, and user role in system design and evaluation. Our findings highlight trends and gaps related to these dimensions. The paper finally presents a reflection on challenges and open issues that must be taken into consideration for the design of future accessible places and of related technologies and applications aimed at facilitating wayfinding and navigation.

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Navigation Assistive Application for the Visually Impaired People

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Smartphone-Based Cognitive Assistance of Blind People in Room Recognition and Awareness

Smartphone-Based Cognitive Assistance of Blind People in Room Recognition and Awareness

Blind and Visually Impaired User Interface to Solve Accessibility Problems

Accessible wayfinding and navigation: a systematic mapping study

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