Paper Info
Title
Indoor Blind Navigator: A Use Case for Self-Guided Tours in Museums.
Abstract
Notably valuable efforts have focused in helping people with special needs. In this work, we build upon the experience from the BlindHelper smartphone outdoor pedestrian navigation app and present Blind-Nav, a system for indoor interactive autonomous navigation of blind and vision-impaired persons and groups (e.g. pupils) in museums. A pilot prototype is under development with the collaboration of the Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece. The paper describes the functionality of the application and evaluates candidate indoor location determination technologies, such as WLAN, Zigbee, and assistive tactile route indications combined with Bluetooth beacons and distance and direction change metering functionality, to come up with a reliable indoor positioning system adopting the latter solution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3056540.3064959
PETRA
Keywords
Field
DocType
Indoor Blind Navigation, Blind, Visually Impaired, Assistive Application, Indoor Positioning System, Indoor Location Determination, Android, Smartphone, Museum, IoT
Beacon,Android (operating system),Special needs,Computer science,Simulation,Internet of Things,Pedestrian navigation,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Bluetooth,Indoor positioning system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Apostolos Meliones16216.35
Demetrios G. Sampson21310247.68