Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
80 results found tagged orientation and mobility.
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Smooth Sailing? Autoethnography of Recreational Travel by a Blind Person
This paper presents the first autoethnographic study of a blind traveller, documenting Kate Stephens' (the first author) experience planning and undertaking a 28-day cruise around Australia with her vision-impaired husband. Kate, a 63-year-old who ha…
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Investigating the Navigational Habits of People who are Blind in India
This paper presents a qualitative study of the navigational experiences of 14 people who are legally blind in the Bangalore metropolitan area of India, a low and middle income country (LMIC) where infrastructure conditions differ substantially from t…
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Opportunities for Supporting Self-efficacy Through Orientation & Mobility Training Technologies for Blind and Partially Sighted People
This paper examines how orientation and mobility (O&M) training shapes the self-efficacy beliefs of blind and partially sighted (BPS) people and identifies opportunities for technology to better support O&M training. The researchers conducted semi-st…
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On the independent and sustainable mobility of people with visual impairments
This doctoral consortium extended abstract outlines a research project investigating the factors that enable or hinder independent mobility for people with blindness or visual impairments (BVI), with a particular focus on the link between mobility au…
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An Investigation of the Experiences of Orientation and Mobility Trainers in India
This qualitative study examines the experiences of twelve orientation and mobility (O&M) trainers working across urban and rural settings in India, a low- and middle-income country (LMIC) where infrastructure, resources, and cultural attitudes toward…
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Enhancing Walk-Light Detector Usage for the Visually Impaired: A Comparison of VR Exploration and Verbal Instructions
This paper from Stevens Institute of Technology and Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute compares two methods for teaching people with visual impairments (PVI) to use a walk-light detector smartphone app at traffic intersections: virtual reality (…
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Check Now, Can You See It?: Exploring Voice and Video-Capable Language Models for Identifying and Spatially Locating Items of Interest for Blind and Low-Vision Travelers
This experience report documents the lived experiences of two blind travelers — Aziz (28, blind in left eye, 20/2200 in right) and JooYoung (35, blind in right eye, limited vision in left) — as they adapted commercially available voice and video-capa…
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Mind Your Crossings: Mining GIS Imagery for Crosswalk Localization
This paper presents a computer vision system for automatically detecting and localizing zebra crosswalks in urban environments by mining existing geospatial image databases, specifically Google satellite imagery and Google Street View. The motivation…
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Insights on Assistive Orientation and Mobility of People with Visual Impairment Based on Large-Scale Longitudinal Data
This paper analyses large-scale longitudinal usage data from iMove, a mobile app supporting outdoor orientation for people with visual impairment (PVI), examining millions of interactions from approximately 15,000 users worldwide over 15 months. This…
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"Seven Stitches Later": A Technologically Interdependent Travel Experience From The Perspective Of A Visually Impaired Individual
This autoethnographic experience report presents a technologically interdependent travel framework developed from over ten years of first-hand travel experience by the author, a visually impaired individual. The paper's title references a real injury…