Autonomous navigation through the city for the blind

ASSETS'10 - Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 195-202

  Sánchez, Jaime ^a   De La Torre, Natalia ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science   (Chile)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Mobile technology; Orientation and mobility; People who are blind

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUDIO-BASED; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; BLIND PEOPLE; BLIND USERS; HIGHER-DEGREE; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; OPEN SPACE; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITIES; PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND; PRIOR INFORMATION; SOFTWARE PROGRAM; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION; VISUAL DISABILITY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOTION COMPENSATION; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 78650617943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1878803.1878838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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