Literature Reviews

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

• Variability in Reactions to Instructional Guidance during Smartphone-Based Assisted Navigation of Blind Users

  Eshed Ohn-Bar, João Guerreiro, Kris Kitani, Chieko Asakawa (2018) — Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)

  This paper takes a close, sensor-level look at something most indoor-navigation research glosses over: how differently individual blind users actually react to the same spoken instruction. The authors instrumented a smartphone-and-BLE-beacon turn-by-…

  • indoor navigation
  • turn-by-turn navigation
  • blindness
  • visual impairment
  • assistive technology
  • orientation and mobility
  • personalization
  • adaptive interface
  • motion analysis
  • reaction time
  • mobile accessibility
  • wayfinding
  • user variability
  • cane technique
  • Bluetooth Low Energy