Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
94 results found tagged navigation.
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Instant Tactile-Audio Map: Enabling Access to Digital Maps for People with Visual Impairment
This paper presents an automated system for converting standard digital map images into interactive tactile-audio maps that people who are blind can explore independently. The core problem addressed is that while online map services like Google Maps …
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Haptic Handheld Wayfinder with Pseudo-Attraction Force for Pedestrians with Visual Impairments
This paper presents a compact handheld haptic device that guides visually impaired pedestrians by generating a directional force sensation — a feeling of being pulled or pushed toward the correct direction. The device exploits a perceptual phenomenon…
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Improving Public Transit Usability for Blind and Deaf-Blind People by Connecting a Braille Display to a Smartphone
This short paper explores the public transit challenges faced by blind and deaf-blind people and presents MoBraille, a novel framework that connects any Wi-Fi-enabled Braille display to an Android smartphone. The authors conducted semi-structured int…
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Assistive Web Browsing with Touch Interfaces
This demo paper from Stony Brook University proposes a touch-based directional navigation technique to improve web browsing for blind users on touch devices (iPhone, MacBook trackpad). The authors identify two key problems with Apple's VoiceOver touc…
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Text Locating in Scene Images for Reading and Navigation Aids for Visually Impaired Persons
This paper presents a computer vision algorithm for locating text in natural scene images — a key capability needed for camera-based reading assistants and navigation aids for people who are blind or visually impaired. While existing reading assistan…
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Supporting Spatial Awareness and Independent Wayfinding for Pedestrians with Visual Impairments
This paper presents Talking Points 3 (TP3), a location- and orientation-aware smartphone system designed to increase the "legibility" of indoor environments for pedestrians with visual impairments, fostering spatial awareness rather than simply provi…
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Situation-based Indoor Wayfinding System for the Visually Impaired
This paper presents an indoor wayfinding system for visually impaired people that uses situation-aware color codes affixed to building walls to guide users to destinations in unfamiliar environments. The key innovation is a situation-based approach: …
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Providing Haptic Feedback Using the Kinect
This poster paper presents a system that combines the Microsoft Kinect depth camera with a custom haptic glove to provide spatial awareness to people who are blind or visually impaired. The research addresses a gap in existing mobility aids: while ca…
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StopFinder: Improving the Experience of Blind Public Transit Riders with Crowdsourcing
This doctoral consortium paper presents StopFinder, a mobile system that uses crowdsourcing to collect and provide information about non-visual landmarks around bus stops for blind public transit riders. The research addresses a fundamental challenge…
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An Integrated System for Blind Day-to-Day Life Autonomy
This demonstration paper presents nav4b, an integrated system designed to support the day-to-day autonomy of blind people by combining indoor/outdoor navigation guidance with object recognition in a single platform. Unlike existing solutions that req…