Cyberguide: a mobile context-aware tour guide
Wireless Networks - Special issue: mobile computing and networking: selected papers from MobiCom '96
GeoNotes: Social and Navigational Aspects of Location-Based Information Systems
UbiComp '01 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
User needs for location-aware mobile services
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
An Experimental Investigation into Wayfinding Directions for Visually Impaired People
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Introduction to the talking points project
Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Activity-based serendipitous recommendations with the Magitti mobile leisure guide
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Context-aware pervasive service composition and its implementation
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Supporting spatial awareness and independent wayfinding for pedestrians with visual impairments
The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Automated feeding of POI base for the generation of route descriptions
Proceedings of the 6th Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems
Experiences with a transportation information system that uses only GPS and SMS
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
CrashAlert: enhancing peripheral alertness for eyes-busy mobile interaction while walking
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
BlueView: a perception assistant system for the visually impaired
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication
Spatialized Audio Environmental Awareness for Blind Users with a Smartphone
Mobile Networks and Applications
Uncovering information needs for independent spatial learning for users who are visually impaired
Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Towards ubiquitous awareness tools for blind people
BCS-HCI '13 Proceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
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We present Talking Points, an urban orientation system based on the idea that an individual's walking journey can be enhanced by providing contextual information about points of interest (POIs) along their route. Our formative research revealed numerous ways to provide serendipitous and task-critical information for both sighted and visually impaired users as they navigate through an urban environment on foot. Based on this, we developed a prototype system comprised of the following: an unobtrusive mobile device to present the user with contextual information; a socially maintained online database containing information about POIs; software that is accessible via both a graphical and a speech user interface; and location "tags" to be detected by the unobtrusive device. This socially maintained urban orientation and contextual information system offers relevant, dynamic, and up-to-date information, a combination which may not otherwise be accessible.