SWAN: System for wearable audio navigation

Proceedings - International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 91-98

  Wilson, Jeff ^a   Walker, Bruce N ^a   Lindsay, Jeffrey ^a   Cambias, Craig ^a   Dellaert, Frank ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCODING; WEARABLE AUDIO NAVIGATION (SWAN);

AUDIO SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

EID: 41149131898     PISSN: 15504816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISWC.2007.4373786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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