Drishti: An integrated indoor/outdoor blind navigation system and service

Proceedings - Second IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 23-30

  Ran, Lisa ^a   Helal, Sumi ^a   Moore, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLIND NAVIGATION SYSTEM; COMMUNICATION INTERFACES; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; WIRELESS CONNECTION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 2642517943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PERCOM.2004.1276842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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