Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
69 results found tagged indoor navigation.
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Understanding Curators' Practices and Challenge of Making Exhibitions More Accessible for People with Visual Impairments
This paper examines exhibition accessibility from the perspective of curators — a stakeholder group that plays a critical role in making museums and galleries accessible but has been largely overlooked in accessibility research. Through semi-structur…
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Experiments with RouteNav, A Wayfinding App for Blind Travelers in a Transit Hub
This paper presents RouteNav, an iOS wayfinding app designed to help blind travelers navigate indoor/outdoor transit hubs without requiring any external infrastructure such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons or Wi-Fi fingerprinting. The system ach…
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Direct or Immersive? Comparing Smartphone-based Museum Guide Systems for Blind Visitors
This paper presents the first direct comparison of two smartphone-based museum guide paradigms for blind visitors: a "direct" system using turn-by-turn navigation with VoiceOver-controlled audio descriptions, and an "immersive" system using spatializ…
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MABLESim: A Simulation Framework for Studying Accessibility Challenges for People with Disabilities within Indoor Environments
This paper introduces MABLESim (Mapping for Accessible BuiLt Environments Simulator), a Unity-based simulation framework designed to study how people with disabilities navigate indoor spaces. The authors address a fundamental research gap: while phys…
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WeAllWalk: An Annotated Dataset of Inertial Sensor Time Series from Blind Walkers
This paper introduces WeAllWalk, an annotated dataset of inertial sensor time series collected from blind and sighted walkers navigating complex indoor routes. Ten blind volunteers (seven using a long cane, one using a guide dog, and two alternating …
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NavCog3 in the Wild: Large-scale Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features
This paper presents NavCog3, a smartphone-based indoor navigation assistant for people with visual impairments that combines high-accuracy Bluetooth beacon localization with rich semantic environmental features. The system uses off-the-shelf BLE beac…
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Deep Learning Compensation of Rotation Errors During Navigation Assistance for People with Visual Impairments or Blindness
This paper addresses a critical but often overlooked problem in turn-by-turn navigation assistance for people with visual impairments or blindness (VIB): rotation errors at turning points. While much navigation research focuses on improving localizat…
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Help and The Social Construction of Access: A Case-Study from India
This paper examines the role of help in how people with visual impairments (PVI) navigate indoor environments in India, challenging the Western-centric assumption that independence should be the primary goal of assistive technology design. Through a …
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Dude, Where's My Luggage? An Autoethnographic Account of Airport Navigation by a Traveler with Residual Vision
This paper presents an autoethnographic study of airport navigation by a legally blind traveler with residual vision, conducted across eight round-trips through six U.S. airports. The first author, Cameron, who has Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy r…