Literature Reviews

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

• WanderGuide: Indoor Map-less Robotic Guide for Exploration by Blind People

  Masaki Kuribayashi, Kohei Uehara, Allan Wang, Shigeo Morishima, Chieko Asakawa (2025) — Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25)

  Kuribayashi and colleagues design WanderGuide, a suitcase-shaped robotic guide that supports blind people in recreational, open-ended exploration of indoor environments — wandering, browsing, window-shopping — rather than getting from A to B. The tea…

  • assistive robotics
  • indoor navigation
  • blindness and low vision
  • visual impairment
  • recreational exploration
  • map-less navigation
  • multimodal large language model
  • human-robot interaction
  • museum accessibility
  • image description