A framework for pedestrian comfort navigation using multi-modal environmental sensors

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 421-436

  Dang, Congwei ^a   Iwai, Masayuki ^a   Tobe, Yoshito ^b   Umeda, Kazunori ^c   Sezaki, Kaoru ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental sensing; Multi factor cost model; Pedestrian navigation; Time dependent network

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; MOBILE COMPUTING;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING; MULTI-FACTOR COST MODELS; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; TIME-DEPENDENT NETWORKS; TIME-VARYING ENVIRONMENTS;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876689585     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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