Literature Reviews

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

• BlindPilot: A Robotic Local Navigation System that Leads Blind People to a Landmark Object

  Seita Kayukawa, Tatsuya Ishihara, Hironobu Takagi, Shigeo Morishima, Chieko Asakawa (2020) — Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '20, Late-Breaking Work)

  Most indoor-navigation research for blind travellers has focused on what the authors call 'global' navigation — getting from a building entrance to a room, gate, or exhibit. The 'last few metres' of the journey, a body-scale interaction with a specif…

  • local navigation
  • landmark object
  • blind navigation
  • indoor navigation
  • assistive robotics
  • visual impairment
  • object detection
  • orientation and mobility
  • shared control
  • LiDAR
  • late-breaking work

• Smartphone-Based Assistance for Blind People to Stand in Lines

  Seita Kayukawa, Hironobu Takagi, João Guerreiro, Shigeo Morishima, Chieko Asakawa (2020) — Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '20, Late-Breaking Work)

  This CHI 2020 Late-Breaking Work is the preliminary study that seeded the CHI 2021 LineChaser paper by the same research group. Where the fuller LineChaser system would later combine line-end finding with AR-marker-based localisation and a dual audio…

  • line standing
  • pedestrian detection
  • vibration feedback
  • visual impairment
  • orientation and mobility
  • smartphone assistive technology
  • blind navigation
  • late-breaking work