ABLE Transit: A mobile application for visually impaired users to navigate public transit

Proceedings - 2012 7th International Conference on Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications, BWCCA 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 402-407

  Harrington, Naomi ^a   Antuna, Laura ^b   Coady, Yvonne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Native and Web Applications; Navigation

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BUS STOP; LOCATION ESTIMATION; LOCATION-AWARE INFORMATIONS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES; PUBLIC TRANSIT; ROUTE INFORMATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS; WEB APPLICATION;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; MASS TRANSPORTATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; NAVIGATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84874252546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BWCCA.2012.72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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