An approach for the measurement of distance travelled by blind and visually impaired people

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1312-1315

  Bousbia Salah, Mounir ^a   Larb, Allai ^a   Bedda, Mouldi ^a  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-INTEGRATION; DRIFT EFFECTS; DRIFT PROBLEM; ELECTRONIC TRAVEL AIDSS; FOOTSWITCH; INTERFACE CARDS; LONG-TERM GOALS; NAVIGATION AIDS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE; BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED; SELF-CONTAINED SYSTEMS;

ACCELEROMETERS; INTEGRATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

NAVIGATION; ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 60349128405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICECS.2003.1301756     Document Type: Conference Paper

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