Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
3 results found tagged smartphone assistive technology.
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Smartphone-Based Assistance for Blind People to Stand in Lines
This CHI 2020 Late-Breaking Work is the preliminary study that seeded the CHI 2021 LineChaser paper by the same research group. Where the fuller LineChaser system would later combine line-end finding with AR-marker-based localisation and a dual audio…
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LineChaser: A Smartphone-Based Navigation System for Blind People to Stand in Lines
Standing in line is a mundane-looking task — at a cashier, bus stop, or airport check-in — but for a blind person it is a brittle, anxiety-ridden sequence: find where the line currently ends (a position that moves), join it without bumping into anyon…
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Corridor-Walker: Mobile Indoor Walking Assistance for Blind People to Avoid Obstacles and Recognize Intersections
Walking an indoor corridor independently is deceptively hard for a blind traveller. Two problems compound: avoiding obstacles stacked against the wall (the same wall the traveller uses as a tactile guide) and recognising when an intersection has arri…