Literature Reviews

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

• A Rollator-Mounted Wayfinding System for the Elderly: A Smart World Perspective

  Aliasgar Kutiyanawala, Vladimir Kulyukin, Edmund LoPresti (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper presents the iWalker, a rollator-mounted wayfinding system designed to help elderly individuals with cognitive and visual impairments navigate indoor environments independently. The system adopts a "smart world" perspective, where intellig…

  • wayfinding
  • aging
  • assistive technology
  • robotics
  • cognitive impairment
  • visual impairment
  • RFID
  • indoor navigation
  • mobility aid

• Detecting Objects and Obstacles for Visually Impaired Individuals Using Visual Saliency

  Benoît Deville, Guido Bologna, Thierry Pun (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This demo paper presents the detection module of See ColOr (Seeing Colors with an Orchestra), a mobility aid for visually impaired people developed at the University of Geneva. See ColOr transforms visual information from the environment into musical…

  • visual impairment
  • obstacle detection
  • mobility aid
  • computer vision
  • sensory substitution
  • visual saliency
  • assistive technology