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 …

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 …

Analysis of navigation assistants for blind and visually impaired people: A systematic review

S Khan, S Nazir, HU Khan - IEEE access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last few decades, the development in the field of navigation and routing devices
has become a hindering task for the researchers to develop smart and intelligent guiding …

Developing walking assistants for visually impaired people: A review

MM Islam, MS Sadi, KZ Zamli… - IEEE Sensors …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of walking assistants for visually impaired people has become a
prominent research area due to the rapid growth of these individuals in recent decades …

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 …

Indoor localization system based on hybrid Wi-Fi/BLE and hierarchical topological fingerprinting approach

RC Luo, TJ Hsiao - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wi-Fi-based localization using received signal strength (RSS) with pedestrian dead
reckoning (PDR) algorithm is widely used to track pedestrians in indoor environments …

Soft human–machine interface sensing displays: materials and devices

S Yu, TH Park, W Jiang, SW Lee, EH Kim… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of human‐interactive sensing displays (HISDs) that simultaneously detect
and visualize stimuli is important for numerous cutting‐edge human–machine interface …

Are electronic white canes better than traditional canes? A comparative study with blind and blindfolded participants

ADP dos Santos, FO Medola, MJ Cinelli… - Universal Access in the …, 2021 - Springer
Visually impaired individuals often rely on assistive technologies such as white canes for
independent navigation. Many electronic enhancements to the traditional white cane have …

[HTML][HTML] Towards assisting visually impaired individuals: A review on current status and future prospects

M Mashiata, T Ali, P Das, Z Tasneem… - … and Bioelectronics: X, 2022 - Elsevier
Visually impaired people require support with regular tasks including navigating, detecting
obstacles, and maintaining safety, especially in both indoor and outdoor environments. As a …

Enhancing perception for the visually impaired with deep learning techniques and low-cost wearable sensors

Z Bauer, A Dominguez, E Cruz, F Gomez-Donoso… - Pattern recognition …, 2020 - Elsevier
As estimated by the World Health Organization, there are millions of people who lives with
some form of vision impairment. As a consequence, some of them present mobility problems …