Literature Reviews

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

• All the Way There and Back: Inertial-Based, Phone-in-Pocket Indoor Wayfinding and Backtracking Apps for Blind Travelers

  Chia Hsuan Tsai, Fatemeh Elyasi, Peng Ren, Roberto Manduchi (2024) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents two iOS apps designed to help blind travelers navigate indoor building environments without requiring external infrastructure like Bluetooth beacons or visual markers. The Wayfinding app uses a known floor plan to compute and guid…

  • indoor navigation
  • wayfinding
  • blind and low vision
  • inertial sensors
  • dead reckoning
  • mobile apps
  • orientation and mobility
  • smartwatch