Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
106 results found tagged wayfinding.
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Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Navigation Infrastructure
This student research competition paper presents LuzDeploy, a system designed to solve a major barrier to the adoption of indoor navigation systems for people with visual impairments: the high cost and expertise required to install and maintain the n…
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Identifying Visual Cues to Improve Independent Indoor Navigation for Blind Individuals
This student research competition paper proposes a novel approach to indoor navigation for blind individuals that focuses on providing environmental awareness and a "sense of space" rather than traditional point-to-point directions. The author argues…
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An overview of programs and projects at the Rehabilitation Research and Development Center
This paper provides an overview of the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center (RR&D), a federal laboratory at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center dedicated to developing assistive technologies for disabled veterans. With approximately fifty re…
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Personal guidance system for the visually impaired
This 1994 paper outlines the design and progress of a portable navigation system intended to enable visually impaired individuals to travel independently through both familiar and unfamiliar environments. The system integrates three core functional c…
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Getting mobile with mobile devices: using the web to improve transit accessibility
This paper proposes a mobile web-based architecture for making public transit accessible to blind and visually impaired travelers. Drawing on direct feedback from the blind community (including one of the authors, who is visually impaired), the paper…
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Linked Data-Driven Decision Support for Accessible Travelling
This doctoral consortium paper proposes using Linked Data principles to build a decision support system (DSS) for accessible travel planning, primarily targeting people with mobility difficulties. The core problem is that accessibility information ab…
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NavCog: Turn-by-Turn Smartphone Navigation Assistant for People with Visual Impairments or Blindness
This extended abstract presents NavCog, an open-source iOS smartphone navigation system designed to assist people with visual impairments or blindness in navigating complex indoor and outdoor environments. While many blind people can independently tr…
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Assessment of Semantic Taxonomies for Blind Indoor Navigation Based on a Shopping Center Use Case
This paper investigates what environmental information is needed to support effective indoor navigation for visually impaired people, and whether existing geographic data specifications provide adequate semantic vocabularies for this purpose. The res…
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Achieving Practical and Accurate Indoor Navigation for People with Visual Impairments
This paper presents improvements to the NavCog indoor navigation system that achieve sub-meter localization accuracy for blind pedestrians while significantly reducing the infrastructure cost of deploying BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacon networks. G…
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How Context and User Behavior Affect Indoor Navigation Assistance for Blind People
This short paper presents a fine-grained thematic analysis of user behaviour during indoor assisted navigation to understand when and why navigation errors occur even when the underlying localisation system is accurate. The research uses NavCog, a sm…