Indoor navigation system for visually impaired

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 471, Issue , 2010, Pages 143-149

  Ivanov, Rosen ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF GABROVO   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Indoor navigation systems for the blind; NFC enabled phones; RFID based navigation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MULTI RATES; EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE; INDOOR NAVIGATION SYSTEM; JAVA PROGRAM; MOBILE TERMINAL; NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATIONS; NFC-ENABLED PHONES; POINTS OF INTEREST; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; RF-ID TAGS; RFID-BASED NAVIGATION; SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGY; VISUAL DISABILITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MARKUP LANGUAGES; MOBILE PHONES; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); TELEPHONE SETS;

RADIO NAVIGATION;

EID: 77956296063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1839379.1839405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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