A multiple sensor-based shoe-mounted user interface designed for navigation systems for the visually impaired

2010 The 5th Annual ICST Wireless Internet Conference, WICON 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zhang, J ^a   Lip, C W ^a   Ong, S K ^a   Nee, A Y C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Infrared based proximity detection; Navigation system for visually impaired; Shoe mounted asssitive device

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE DEVICES; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; DAILY LIVES; DESIGN CRITERION; INFRARED-BASED PROXIMITY DETECTION; MULTIPLE SENSORS; NAVIGATION AIDS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROTOTYPE DEVICES; PROXIMITY DETECTION; SENSOR UNITS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATION; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

INTERNET; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; USER INTERFACES;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 77952778533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.WICON2010.8516     Document Type: Conference Paper

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