• DocumentCode
    3456262
  • Title

    Basic Study on Presenting Distance Information to the Blind for Navigation

  • Author

    Wada, Chikamune

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Life Sci. & Syst. Eng., Kyushu Inst. of Technol., Kitakyushu, Japan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    7-9 Dec. 2009
  • Firstpage
    405
  • Lastpage
    408
  • Abstract
    Most electronic travel aids for the visually impaired and blind persons use voice instruction to inform the device users of the distance to the destination. However, presentation method of voice instruction have not been designed by taking into account the specific characteristics of human cognition, and so users sometimes would be confused. Then, in this paper, we would like to investigate optimal presentation method. From the results, we proposed a new distance-presentation method by voice instruction and revealed its efficacy.
  • Keywords
    cognition; handicapped aids; navigation; blind navigation; distance information presentation; distance-presentation method; human cognition; voice instruction presentation method; Cognition; Computer aided instruction; Control systems; Humans; Leg; Legged locomotion; Navigation; Position measurement; Systems engineering and theory; Timing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Innovative Computing, Information and Control (ICICIC), 2009 Fourth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kaohsiung
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5543-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICICIC.2009.123
  • Filename
    5412335