Literature Reviews

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

• PathFinder: Designing a Map-less Navigation System for Blind People in Unfamiliar Buildings

  Masaki Kuribayashi, Tatsuya Ishihara, Daisuke Sato, Jayakorn Vongkulbhisal, Karnik Ram, Seita Kayukawa, Hironobu Takagi, Shigeo Morishima, Chieko Asakawa (2023) — Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  Map-based indoor navigation systems for blind travellers (CaBot, NavCog, BLE-beacon apps) work well when a prebuilt map exists, but building and maintaining those maps is labour-intensive and has only been done for a tiny fraction of the world's buil…

  • map-less navigation
  • blind navigation
  • indoor navigation
  • intersection detection
  • sign recognition
  • visual impairment
  • orientation and mobility
  • participatory design
  • shared control
  • assistive robotics
  • LiDAR
  • OCR