Literature Reviews

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

• Accessible spaces: navigating through a marked environment with a camera phone

  Kee-Yip Chan, Roberto Manduchi, James Coughlan (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This short Assets '07 demonstration paper from UC Santa Cruz and the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute describes a camera-phone-based wayfinding system for blind travellers. The core idea is to deploy small, cheap, pie-shaped colour markers in …

  • wayfinding
  • navigation
  • blindness
  • visual impairment
  • computer vision
  • camera phone
  • orientation and mobility
  • assistive technology
  • text-to-speech
  • fiducial markers