Literature Reviews

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

• Smartphone Application for Indoor Scene Localization

  Nabeel Younus Khan, Brendan McCane (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This demonstration paper presents a smartphone-based assistive technology that uses computer vision to determine a blind user's location inside a building where GPS is ineffective. The system operates on a client-server model running on an Android HT…

  • visual impairment
  • blind navigation
  • indoor localization
  • computer vision
  • smartphone
  • image matching
  • SIFT features
  • client-server
  • assistive technology
  • Android

• Hacking Blind Navigation

  João Guerreiro, Hernisa Kacorri, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Edward Cutrell, Daisuke Sato, Dragan Ahmetovic, Chieko Asakawa (2019) — CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

  This workshop summary describes a one-day CHI 2019 workshop designed to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines working on assistive navigation technologies for blind people. The organizers — experts from Carnegie Mellon University, Univ…

  • blind navigation
  • orientation and mobility
  • assistive technology
  • visual impairment
  • computer vision
  • indoor localization
  • virtual navigation
  • workshop