Literature Reviews

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

• Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Localization Infrastructure to Support Blind Navigation

  Cole Gleason, Dragan Ahmetovic, Saiph Savage, Carlos Toxtli, Carl Posthuma, Chieko Asakawa, Kris M. Kitani, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2018) — Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)

  This paper introduces LuzDeploy, a physical crowdsourcing system that coordinates non-expert volunteers to install and maintain Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon infrastructure for indoor navigation systems used by blind people. The central problem i…

  • indoor navigation
  • crowdsourcing
  • Bluetooth beacons
  • blind users
  • wayfinding
  • infrastructure maintenance
  • physical crowdsourcing

• Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Navigation Infrastructure

  Cole Gleason (2017) — Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

  This student research competition paper presents LuzDeploy, a system designed to solve a major barrier to the adoption of indoor navigation systems for people with visual impairments: the high cost and expertise required to install and maintain the n…

  • indoor navigation
  • crowdsourcing
  • Bluetooth beacons
  • blindness
  • wayfinding
  • assistive technology
  • physical crowdsourcing