Orienting kinesthetically: A haptic handheld wayfinder for people with visual impairments

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Amemiya, Tomohiro ^a   Sugiyama, Hisashi ^b  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

^b Kyoto City Fire Department   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blind; Haptics; Mobility; Tactile communication

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTION FORCE; AVOID OBSTACLES; BLIND; DIRECTIONAL INFORMATION; HANDHELDS; HAPTICS; MOBILITY; NAVIGATIONAL INFORMATION; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; POSITION INFORMATION; REAL TIME; TACTILE COMMUNICATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WAY-FINDING;

EID: 78651534991     PISSN: 19367228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1857920.1857923     Document Type: Article

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