Electronic travel aids (ETAs) have been in focus since technology allowed designing
relatively small, light, and mobile devices for assisting the visually impaired. Since visually …

Navigation assistance services for people with visual impairment pose the challenge of
providing accurate guidance through non-visual navigation instructions. This paper …

The development of computer vision based systems dedicated to help visually impaired
people to perceive the environment, to orientate and navigate has been the main research …

Indoor navigation services for people with visual impairment are being researched in
academia, and working systems have already been deployed in public places. While …

Blind people can locate and track a sound source with remarkable efficiency. Following this
principle, we have developed an autonomous embedded device capable of guiding people …

Translating visual representations of real environments into auditory feedback is one of the
key challenges in the design of an electronic travel aid for visually impaired persons …

With the increase in the number of sensory substitution devices, the engineering community
is confronted with a new challenge: ensuring user training in safe virtual environments …

Nowadays, people have to face many challenges In order to become familiar with all the
functionalities of electronical devices. The training process becomes thus essential …

We present an experimental investigation of spatial audio feedback using smartphones to
support direction localization in pointing tasks for people with visual impairments (PVIs). We …

This paper proposes a sonification model for encoding visual 3D information into sounds,
inspired by the impact properties of the objects encountered during blind navigation. The …