Literature Reviews

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

• Achieving Practical and Accurate Indoor Navigation for People with Visual Impairments

  Dragan Ahmetovic, Masayuki Murata, Cole Gleason, Erin Brady, Hironobu Takagi, Kris Kitani, Chieko Asakawa (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents improvements to the NavCog indoor navigation system that achieve sub-meter localization accuracy for blind pedestrians while significantly reducing the infrastructure cost of deploying BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacon networks. G…

  • indoor navigation
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • BLE beacons
  • Bluetooth Low Energy
  • localization
  • pedestrian dead reckoning
  • particle filter
  • NavCog
  • smartphone
  • wayfinding
  • assistive technology
  • user study
  • sensor networks
  • turn-by-turn navigation