Literature Reviews

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

• NavCog3: An Evaluation of a Smartphone-Based Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features in a Large-Scale Environment

  Daisuke Sato, Uran Oh, Kakuya Naito, Hironobu Takagi, Kris Kitani, Chieko Asakawa (2017) — Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

  This paper presents NavCog3, a smartphone-based indoor navigation assistant for people with visual impairments, evaluated at scale in a 21,000 m² shopping mall in Japan. Unlike many prior indoor navigation prototypes that were tested only in constrai…

  • indoor navigation
  • blindness
  • visual impairment
  • wayfinding
  • Bluetooth beacons
  • orientation and mobility
  • smartphone
  • assistive technology
  • semantic features

• NavCog3 in the Wild: Large-scale Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features

  Daisuke Sato, Uran Oh, João Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kakuya Naito, Hironobu Takagi, Kris M. Kitani, Chieko Asakawa (2019) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents NavCog3, a smartphone-based indoor navigation assistant for people with visual impairments that combines high-accuracy Bluetooth beacon localization with rich semantic environmental features. The system uses off-the-shelf BLE beac…

  • indoor navigation
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • Bluetooth beacons
  • localization
  • semantic features
  • points of interest
  • turn-by-turn navigation
  • in-the-wild evaluation