Supporting spatial awareness and independent wayfinding for pedestrians with visual impairments

ASSETS'11: Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 27-34

  Yang, Rayoung ^a   Park, Sangmi ^a   Mishra, Sonali R ^a   Hong, Zhenan ^a   Newsom, Clint ^a   Joo, Hyeon ^a   Hofer, Erik ^a   Newman, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

accessibility; wayfinding

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CAMPUS BUILDINGS; COMPUTING SYSTEM; LEGALLY BLIND; LOCATION AWARE SYSTEM; LOCATION BASED; POINTS OF INTEREST; SERENDIPITOUS DISCOVERY; SPATIAL AWARENESS; TALKING POINT; VISUAL CHANNELS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WAY-FINDING;

EID: 81855228052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2049536.2049544     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (24)

1. Arthur, P. and Passini, R. 1992. Wayfinding: People, Signs, and Architecture. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto.
2. Cheverst, K., Mitchell, K. and Davies, N. 2001. Investigating Context-aware Information Push vs. Information Pull to Tourists. In Proc. MobileHCI 2001. ACM, New York, NY, 1-6.
3. Cook B, Buckberry G, Scowcroft I, Mitchell J, Allen T. 2005. Indoor Location Using Trilateration Characteristics, In Proc. London Communications Symposium. 147-150.
4. Dahlbäck, N., Jönsson, A., and Ahrenberg, L. 1993. Wizard of Oz studies: why and how. In Proc. IUI '93, ACM, New York, NY, 193-200.
5. Gifford, S., Knox, J., James, J., and Prakash, A. 2006. Introduction to the talking points project. In Proc. ASSETS '06, ACM, New York, NY, 271-272.
6. Golledge, R.G., Marston, J.R., Loomis, J.M., & Klatzky, R.L. 2004. Stated preferences for components of a personal guidance system for non-visual navigation. Journal of Vision Impairment and Blindness, 98, 135-147. (Pubitemid 38387610)
7. Helal, A., Moore, S.E., and Ramachandran, B. 2001. Drishti: An Integrated Navigation System for Visually Impaired and Disabled. In Proc. ISWC '01, 149-156.
8. Ishikawa, T., Fujiwara, H., Imai, O., and Okabe, 2008. A. Wayfinding with a GPS-based mobile navigation system: A comparison with maps and direct experience. Journal of Environmental Psychology 28, 1, 74-82.
9. Leshed, G., Velden, T., Rieger, O., Kot, B., and Sengers, P. 2008. In-car GPS navigation: engagement with and disengagement from the environment. In Proc. CHI '08, ACM, New York, NY, 1675-1684.
10. Lim, H., Kung, L.-C., Hou, J.C., and Luo, H. 2010. Zero-configuration indoor localization over IEEE 802.11 wireless infrastructure. Wireless Networks 16, 2, 405-420.
11. Loomis, J.M., Golledge, R.G., Klatzky, R.L., Speigle, J.M., and Tietz, J. 1994. Personal guidance system for the visually impaired. In Proc. ASSETS '94, ACM, New York, NY, 85-91.
12. Loomis, J.M., Marston, J.R., Golledge, R.G., and Klatzky, R.L. 2005. Personal guidance system for people with visual impairment: A comparison of spatial displays for route guidance. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness 99, 4, 219-232. (Pubitemid 40571704)
13. Lynch, K. 1960. The Image of the City. The MIT Press, Cambridge.
14. Passini, R. and Proulx, G. 1988. Wayfinding without vision: an experiment with congenitally totally blind people. Environment and Behavior 20, 2, 227-252.
15. Passini, R. Wayfinding in Architecture. 1984. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
16. Petrie, H., Johnson, V., Strothotte, T., Raab, A., Fritz, S., and Michel, R. 1996. MoBIC: Designing a travel aid for blind and elderly people. Journal of Navigation 49, 45-52.
17. Pielot, M. and Boll, S. 2010. Tactile Wayfinder: comparison of tactile waypoint navigation with commercial pedestrian navigation systems. In Proc. Pervasive 2010, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg. 76-93.
18. Pressl, B. and Wieser, M. 2006. A computer-based navigation system tailored to the needs of blind people. In Proc. ICCHP 2006, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1280-1286.
19. Quiñones, P., Greene, T.C., Yang, R., and Newman, M.W. 2011. Supporting Visually Impaired Navigation: A Needs-finding Study. In Ext. Abstracts of CHI '11, ACM, New York, NY, 1645-1650.
20. Sanchez, J.H., Aguayo, F.A., and Hassler, T.M. 2007. Independent Outdoor Mobility for the Blind. Virtual Rehabilitation, 114-120.
21. Stewart, J., Bauman, S., Escobar, M., Hilden, J., Bihani, K., and Newman, M.W. 2008. Accessible contextual information for urban orientation. In Proc. Ubicomp '08, ACM, New York, NY, 332-335.
22. Viégas, F.B., Wattenberg, M., and McKeon, M.M. 2007. The hidden order of Wikipedia. In Proc. OCSC '07, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 445-454.
23. Völkel, T., Kühn, R., and Weber, G. Mobility Impaired Pedestrians Are Not Cars: Requirements for the Annotation of Geographical Data. In Proc. ICCHP '08, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1085-1092.
24. Walker, B.N. and Lindsay, J. 2006. Navigation performance with a virtual auditory display: Effects of beacon sound, capture radius, and practice. Human Factors, 48, 2, 265-278. (Pubitemid 44061487)