Design and development of an indoor navigation and object identification system for the blind Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:622839, abstract = {In this paper we present a new system that assists blind users in orienting themselves in indoor environments. We developed a sensor module that can be handled like a flashlight by a blind user and can be used for searching tasks within the three-dimensional environment. By pressing keys, inquiries concerning object characteristics, position, orientation and navigation can be sent to a connected portable computer, or to a federation of data servers providing models of the environment. Finally these inquiries are acoustically answered over a text-to-speech engine.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Hub, Andreas and Diepstraten, Joachim and Ertl, Thomas}, booktitle = {Assets '04: Proceedings of the 6th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility}, citeulike-article-id = {622839}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1028657}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1028630.1028657}, doi = {10.1145/1028630.1028657}, isbn = {158113911X}, keywords = {blind, computer-human, wayfinding}, pages = {147--152}, posted-at = {2006-05-11 09:50:38}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Design and development of an indoor navigation and object identification system for the blind}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1028630.1028657}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:622839 L3 - citeulike-article-id:622839 N2 - In this paper we present a new system that assists blind users in orienting themselves in indoor environments. We developed a sensor module that can be handled like a flashlight by a blind user and can be used for searching tasks within the three-dimensional environment. By pressing keys, inquiries concerning object characteristics, position, orientation and navigation can be sent to a connected portable computer, or to a federation of data servers providing models of the environment. Finally these inquiries are acoustically answered over a text-to-speech engine. SN - 158113911X AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 152 TI - Design and development of an indoor navigation and object identification system for the blind PB - ACM Press T2 - Assets '04: Proceedings of the 6th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility SP - 147 KW - blind KW - computer-human KW - wayfinding AU - Hub, Andreas AU - Diepstraten, Joachim AU - Ertl, Thomas PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1028630.1028657 ER -