Literature Reviews

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

• Hacking Blind Navigation

  João Guerreiro, Hernisa Kacorri, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Edward Cutrell, Daisuke Sato, Dragan Ahmetovic, Chieko Asakawa (2019) — CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

  This workshop summary describes a one-day CHI 2019 workshop designed to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines working on assistive navigation technologies for blind people. The organizers — experts from Carnegie Mellon University, Univ…

  • blind navigation
  • orientation and mobility
  • assistive technology
  • visual impairment
  • computer vision
  • indoor localization
  • virtual navigation
  • workshop

• Virtual Navigation for Blind People: Building Sequential Representations of the Real-World

  João Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kris M. Kitani, Chieko Asakawa (2017) — Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

  This paper investigates whether blind people can build accurate mental representations of real-world routes by virtually navigating them on a smartphone before physically visiting the location. Sighted people routinely study maps before visiting new …

  • blindness
  • navigation
  • cognitive mapping
  • virtual navigation
  • orientation and mobility
  • spatial cognition
  • assistive technology
  • wayfinding