Title
VIHapp: a wearable system to support blind skiing.
Abstract
Many people who are blind or partially blind continue to enjoy alpine sports such as skiing and snowboarding. Because of their restricted visual perception, visually impaired (VI) skiers are usually accompanied by a ski guide. We present VIHapp, a system consisting of smart ski poles, smart armbands and an instrumented ski to enable communication between VI skiers and ski guides. Guides send commands to VI skiers by pressing a button on their ski poles. VI skiers receive commands in the form of vibrations on their armbands. The smart ski detects turns performed by VI skiers and sends notifications to the guide's smart ski poles.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3123024.3124443
UbiComp '17: The 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Maui Hawaii September, 2017
Keywords
Field
DocType
sport, ski, blind, wearable, turn recognition
Computer vision,Simulation,Computer science,Wearable computer,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Visual perception
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5190-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan Haladjian1176.75
Maximilian Reiß200.34
Bernd Brügge323938.20