NFC based applications for visually impaired people - A review

2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Alzuhair, Mona Suliman ^a   Najjar, Abir Benabid ^a   Kanjo, Eiman ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assistive technologies; indoor navigation; NFC tagging; object identification; visually impairment

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; IN-DOOR NAVIGATIONS; NFC TAGGING; OBJECT IDENTIFICATION; VISUALLY IMPAIRMENTS;

NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84937138482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMEW.2014.6890657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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