Tactile map automated creation system to enhance the mobility of blind persons - Its design concept and evaluation through experiment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6180 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages 534-540

  Minatani, Kazunori ^a   Watanabe, Tetsuya ^b   Yamaguchi, Toshimitsu ^b   Watanabe, Ken ^b   Akiyama, Joji ^b   Miyagi, Manabi ^c   Oouchi, Susumu ^d  

^a The National Center for University Entrance Examinations   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blind person; Independent Mobility; Orientation and Mobility; Tactile Map; Visually Impaired

Indexed keywords

BLIND PERSON; DESIGN CONCEPT; TACTILE MAPS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

VISION;

VISION AIDS;

EID: 77955070200     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14100-3_80     Document Type: Conference Paper

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