Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged pedestrian detection.
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BBeep: A Sonic Collision Avoidance System for Blind Travellers and Nearby Pedestrians
This paper presents BBeep, an assistive suitcase-shaped system designed to help blind travellers navigate crowded public spaces such as international airports, train stations, and shopping malls. The authors argue that existing blind-navigation resea…
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Smartphone-Based Assistance for Blind People to Stand in Lines
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…
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LineChaser: A Smartphone-Based Navigation System for Blind People to Stand in Lines
Standing in line is a mundane-looking task — at a cashier, bus stop, or airport check-in — but for a blind person it is a brittle, anxiety-ridden sequence: find where the line currently ends (a position that moves), join it without bumping into anyon…
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Pedestrian Detection with Wearable Cameras for the Blind: A Two-way Perspective
Wearable cameras — embedded in commercial products like OrCam, Aira, and eSight — promise blind users equitable access to visual information about the people around them: who is approaching, where they are looking, whether eye contact is possible. Bu…
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Accessing Passersby Proxemic Signals through a Head-Worn Camera: Opportunities and Limitations for the Blind
This paper explores the potential and limitations of using head-worn cameras with computer vision to help blind people access proxemic signals — the spatial behaviour of nearby people that sighted individuals perceive visually, such as someone's pres…