Tracking indoor location and motion for navigational assistance

Nektarios Paisios, Alex Rubinsteyn, Matt Tierney, Lakshmi Subramanian, Vrutti Vyas

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Abstract

Visually impaired people have a harder time remembering their way around complex unfamiliar buildings, whilst obtaining the help of a sighted guide is not always possible or desirable. By sensing the users location and motion, however, mobile phone software can provide navigational assistance in such situations, obviating the need of human guides. We present a simple to operate and highly usable mobile navigational guide that uses Wi-Fi and accelerometer sensors to help the user repeat paths that were already walked once.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationUIST'11 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Pages83-84
Number of pages2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event24th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2011 - Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Duration: Oct 16 2011Oct 19 2011

Publication series

NameUIST'11 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Other

Other24th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Barbara, CA
Period10/16/1110/19/11

Keywords

  • Bayesian filter
  • Mobile phone
  • Navigational system
  • Visually impaired
  • Wi-Fi localization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Software

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