Reinhard Koutny, Klaus Miesenberger,
"Virtual Mobility Trainer for Visually Impaired People"
, in P. Encarnacao et. al.: Assistive Technology: From Research to Practice, Serie Assistive Technology Research Series, Vol. 33, IOS-Press, Seite(n) 665, 9-2013, ISSN: 1879-8071
Original Titel:
Virtual Mobility Trainer for Visually Impaired People
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Assistive Technology: From Research to Practice
Original Kurzfassung:
This paper presents a prototype [1] of a location-based and context aware system
supporting blind and visually impaired people to improve their mobility skills and in
particular enhancing traditional mobility training. The system supports annotating predefined
routes with information provided in standard mobility training sessions for blind
people. This allows later on to reuse the information provided in a person to person session
and even to share this expertise with other people. People in need of knowing by heart a
certain route can go back to the stored mobility training information to better remember and
learn how to manage this route independently. The virtual mobility trainer allows making
repeatedly, time independent and location-based use of information provided from a human
instructor. We present a first prototype which allows designing routes, accessible to blind
and visually impaired so that it can be used for mobility training. Furthermore, this tool
allows performing advanced orientation tasks assisting blind people in an unknown
environment. We use the Digital Graffiti framework [2] as underlying framework, which
supports the needed annotation of maps with virtual landmarks.
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