Interacting with flying objects has fueled people's imagination throughout history. Over the
past decade, the Human-Drone Interaction (HDI) community has been working towards …

The design space of social drones, where autonomous flyers operate in close proximity to
human users or bystanders, is distinct from use cases involving a remote human operator …

Navigation robots have the potential to overcome some of the limitations of traditional
navigation aids for blind people, specially in unfamiliar environments. In this paper, we …

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 …

Numerous systems for helping visually impaired people navigate in unfamiliar places have
been proposed. However, few can detect and warn about moving obstacles, provide correct …

Drones are rapidly populating human spaces, yet little is known about how these flying
robots are perceived and understood by humans. Recent works suggested that their …

Navigation assistance systems (NASs) aim to help visually impaired people (VIPs) navigate
unfamiliar environments. Most of today's NASs support VIPs via turn-by-turn navigation, but …

Drones (micro unmanned aerial vehicles) are becoming more prevalent in applications that
bring them into close human spaces. This is made possible in part by clear drone-to-human …

Despite their growing popularity, many public kiosks with touchscreens are inaccessible to
blind people. Toucha11y is a working prototype that allows blind users to use existing …

We present a guiding system to help blind people walk in public spaces while making their
walking seamless with nearby pedestrians. Blind users carry a rolling suitcase-shaped …