Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• An Integrated System for Blind Day-to-Day Life Autonomy

  Hugo Fernandes, José Faria, Hugo Paredes, João Barroso (2011) — Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

  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…

  • blindness
  • navigation
  • RFID
  • object recognition
  • white cane
  • mobile accessibility
  • wayfinding
  • assistive technology
  • bone conduction

• Experimental Analysis of a Spatialised Audio Interface for People with Visual Impairments

  Jacobus C. Lock, Iain D. Gilchrist, Grzegorz Cielniak, Nicola Bellotto (2020) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper evaluates a spatialised audio interface designed to help people with visual impairments find objects in indoor environments. Part of the ActiVis project, the system uses a Google Project Tango mobile device with RGB-D cameras for localizat…

  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • navigation
  • spatial audio
  • bone conduction
  • electronic travel aid
  • Fitts Law
  • audio interface
  • object finding

• CaBot: Designing and Evaluating an Autonomous Navigation Robot for Blind People

  João Guerreiro, Daisuke Sato, Saki Asakawa, Huixu Dong, Kris M. Kitani, Chieko Asakawa (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

  This paper presents CaBot (Carry-on roBot), an autonomous suitcase-shaped navigation robot designed to guide blind people to destinations in unfamiliar indoor environments while avoiding obstacles. Unlike smartphone navigation apps that provide turn-…

  • navigation robot
  • blind
  • orientation and mobility
  • haptic feedback
  • LiDAR
  • computer vision
  • human-robot interaction
  • obstacle avoidance
  • bone conduction
  • indoor navigation