Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of PERCEPT indoor navigation system for visually impaired users

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5815-5818

  Ganz, Aura ^a   Schafer, James ^a   Puleo, Elaine ^b   Wilson, Carole ^c   Robertson, Meg ^c  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Commission for the Blind Executive Office of Health and Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Indoor localization; RFID; Visually impaired users

Indexed keywords

BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; INDOOR NAVIGATION SYSTEM; INDOOR SPACE; MULTISTORY BUILDING; PUBLIC SPACE; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW VISION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISION, LOW;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880820856     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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