Title
"Turn Left After the Heater": Landmark Navigation for Visually Impaired Users.
Abstract
Indoor navigation is a challenging task for visually impaired people. Existing technologies promise to provide support for autonomous way finding; however, the accuracy of low-budget approaches is low and can lead to frustration amongst users. The presented ongoing work is based on suggestions in the literature that contextual information such as sudden changes in the surface structure or landmarks could supplement distance estimations to improve the user experience during navigation tasks. Following a user-centered design approach, a real-time interactive prototype with localization was implemented and evaluated. First results from a pilot study confirmed the hypothesis that user experience is improved by contextual information and showed that contextual information are accepted and appreciated by users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2982142.2982195
ASSETS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Indoor navigation,visually impaired people,iBeacons
Contextual information,User experience design,Way finding,Computer science,Surface structure,Turn-by-turn navigation,Human–computer interaction,Landmark,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-4124-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert Tscharn1132.69
Tom Außenhofer200.34
Dimitri Reisler300.34
Jörn Hurtienne426844.65