Haptic handheld wayfinder with pseudo-attraction force for pedestrians with visual impairments

ASSETS'09 - Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 107-114

  Amemiya, Tomohiro ^a   Sugiyama, Hisashi ^b  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b Kyoto City Fire Department   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric oscillation; Maze task; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC OSCILLATIONS; ATTRACTION FORCE; HANDHELDS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEDESTRIANS; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS; WAY-FINDING;

EID: 72249101280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639642.1639662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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