The visually impaired suffer greatly while moving from one place to another. They face
challenges in going outdoors and in protecting themselves from moving and stationary …

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 …

The emergence of textile-based wearable sensors as light-weight portable devices to
monitor desired parameters, has recently gained much interest and has led to the …

The last decades a variety of portable or wearable navigation systems have been developed
to assist visually impaired people during navigation in known or unknown, indoor or outdoor …

The NavGuide is a novel electronic device to assist visually impaired people with obstacle
free path-finding. The highlight of the NavGuide system is that it provides simplified …

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 …

Blind people need some aid to feel safe while moving. Smart stick comes as a proposed
solution to improve the mobility of both blind and visually impaired people. Stick solution use …

This paper presents a system which extends the use of the traditional white cane by the
blind for navigation purposes in indoor environments. Depth data of the scene in front of the …

Blindness is a state of lacking the visual perception due to physiological or neurological
factors. The partial blindness represents the lack of integration in the growth of the optic …

Independent mobility is one of the main challenges for blind or visually impaired (BVI)
people. In particular, BVI people often need to identify and avoid nearby obstacles, for …