Guiding the visually impaired through the environment with beacons

Authors
  • J. van der Bie
  • B. Visser
  • J. Matsari
  • M. Singh
  • T. van Hasselt
  • J. Koopman
  • B. Kröse
Publication date 2016
Book title UbiComp'16 Adjunct
Book subtitle proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing : September 12-16, 2016, Heidelberg, Germany
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781450344623
Event 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Pages (from-to) 385-388
Number of pages 4
Publisher New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract Urban environments are full of noise and obstacles, and therefore potentially dangerous and difficult to navigate for the visually impaired. Using Bluetooth beacons and a smartphone app we guide them through these environments by providing the information needed for that specific location. We present the preliminary results concerning the usability of our approach.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2971387 (Final published version)
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