Tools and technologies for blind and visually impaired navigation support: a review

B Kuriakose, R Shrestha, FE Sandnes - IETE Technical Review, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The development of navigation tools for people who are visually impaired had become an
important concern in the research area of assistive technologies. This paper gives a …

An insight into assistive technology for the visually impaired and blind people: state-of-the-art and future trends

A Bhowmick, SM Hazarika - Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 2017 - Springer
Assistive technology for the visually impaired and blind people is a research field that is
gaining increasing prominence owing to an explosion of new interest in it from disparate …

An insight into smartphone-based assistive solutions for visually impaired and blind people: issues, challenges and opportunities

A Khan, S Khusro - Universal Access in the Information Society, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Safe local navigation for visually impaired users with a time-of-flight and haptic feedback device

RK Katzschmann, B Araki, D Rus - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents ALVU (Array of Lidars and Vibrotactile Units), a contactless, intuitive,
hands-free, and discreet wearable device that allows visually impaired users to detect low …

GuideBeacon: Beacon-based indoor wayfinding for the blind, visually impaired, and disoriented

SA Cheraghi, V Namboodiri… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There are currently few options for navigational aids for the blind and visually impaired (BVI)
in large indoor spaces. Such indoor spaces can be difficult to navigate even for the general …

Enabling independent navigation for visually impaired people through a wearable vision-based feedback system

HC Wang, RK Katzschmann, S Teng… - … on robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work introduces a wearable system to provide situational awareness for blind and
visually impaired people. The system includes a camera, an embedded computer and a …

Computer vision-based object recognition for the visually impaired in an indoors environment: a survey

R Jafri, SA Ali, HR Arabnia, S Fatima - The Visual Computer, 2014 - Springer
Though several electronic assistive devices have been developed for the visually impaired
in the past few decades, however, relatively few solutions have been devised to aid them in …

A review of assistive spatial orientation and navigation technologies for the visually impaired

H Fernandes, P Costa, V Filipe, H Paredes… - Universal Access in the …, 2019 - Springer
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 …

A kinect-based wearable face recognition system to aid visually impaired users

LB Neto, F Grijalva, VRML Maike… - … on Human-Machine …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce a real-time face recognition (and announcement) system targeted
at aiding the blind and low-vision people. The system uses a Microsoft Kinect sensor as a …

[图书][B] Health professional as educator: principles of teaching and learning: principles of teaching and learning

SB Bastable, D Sopczyk, P Gramet, K Jacobs - 2019 - books.google.com
Written for health professionals, the Second Edition of Health Professional as Educator:
Principles of Teaching and Learning focuses on the daily education of patients, clients …