An indoor navigation system to support the visually impaired

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4435-4438

  Riehle, T H ^a   Lichter, P ^a   Giudice, N A ^b  

^a Koronis Biomedical Technologies Corp   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ASSET TRACKING SYSTEMS; IN-DOOR NAVIGATIONS; INDOOR NAVIGATION SYSTEM; NAVIGATION IN FORMATION; PERSONAL NAVIGATION; REAL-TIME LOCATION; SPEECH INFORMATION; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLINDNESS; CANE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; PATIENT; SENSORY AID; VISUAL FIELD; WALKING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLINDNESS; CANES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROCOMPUTERS; SENSORY AIDS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS; WALKING;

EID: 61849092004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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