A new approach for pedestrian navigation for mobility impaired users based on multimodal annotation of geographical data

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4555 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 575-584

  Vòlkel, Thorsten ^a   Weber, Gerhard ^b  

^a Mobile Communication and Service GmbH   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mobility impairment; Multimodal annotation; Pedestrian navigation

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION SERVICES; MODAL ANALYSIS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

MOBILITY IMPAIRMENT; MULTIMODAL ANNOTATION; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 38149128325     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73281-5_61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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