Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
9 results found tagged Bluetooth beacons.
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CATPro: context-aware task prompting system with multiple modalities for individuals with cognitive impairments
This short paper presents CATPro (Context-Aware Task Prompting), a system designed to help individuals with cognitive impairments perform daily living and workplace tasks more independently. The system targets people with a range of conditions includ…
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Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Localization Infrastructure to Support Blind Navigation
This paper introduces LuzDeploy, a physical crowdsourcing system that coordinates non-expert volunteers to install and maintain Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon infrastructure for indoor navigation systems used by blind people. The central problem i…
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Use of an Indoor Navigation System by Sighted and Blind Travelers: Performance Similarities across Visual Status and Age
This study evaluates an indoor navigation system using commercial iOS devices and Bluetooth beacons to guide blind and visually impaired (BVI) travelers through complex university buildings. The research compared two navigation conditions: a system-a…
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NavCog3: An Evaluation of a Smartphone-Based Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features in a Large-Scale Environment
This paper presents NavCog3, a smartphone-based indoor navigation assistant for people with visual impairments, evaluated at scale in a 21,000 m² shopping mall in Japan. Unlike many prior indoor navigation prototypes that were tested only in constrai…
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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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Turn Right: Analysis of Rotation Errors in Turn-by-Turn Navigation for Individuals with Visual Impairments
This paper examines a frequently overlooked problem in navigation assistance for blind and visually impaired (BVI) people: how accurately users execute rotation instructions during turn-by-turn guidance. While much research has focused on improving l…
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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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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…
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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…