Development of a Wearable Computer Orientation System
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Shoes as a Platform for Vision
ISWC '03 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Shoes as a Platform for Vision
ISWC '03 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Drishti: An Integrated Indoor/Outdoor Blind Navigation System and Service
PERCOM '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'04)
CVPR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) - Workshops - Volume 03
Digital Sign System for Indoor Wayfinding for the Visually Impaired
CVPR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) - Workshops - Volume 03
Pedestrian Tracking with Shoe-Mounted Inertial Sensors
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Fuzzy image processing scheme for autonomous navigation of human blind
Applied Soft Computing
A system to aid blind people in the mobility: A usability test and its results
ICONS '07 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Systems
Indoor Navigational Aid System for the Visually Impaired
GMAI '07 Proceedings of the Geometric Modelling and Imaging
Emergency guiding and monitoring applications in indoor 3D environments by wireless sensor networks
International Journal of Sensor Networks
Body-Braille System for Disabled People
ICCHP '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
Super-feet: a wireless hand-free navigation system for virtual environments
ICVR'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Virtual reality
Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired and Blind People
Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired and Blind People
WARAJI: foot-driven navigation interfaces for virtual reality applications
PCM'04 Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - Volume Part III
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Assistive technology and assistive devices have been researched and developed to promote an independent daily life for visually impaired individuals. Navigation for the visually impaired may be one of the most challenging tasks due to high expectations on both the functionality and the mechanical specifications of the devices. This research aims at developing a multiple-sensor-based hand-free device as a navigation aid to detect obstacles. The developed device incorporates a sensor unit and a feedback unit with either a wired or a wireless data communication set-up. The working principle and the design criteria are identified with several working scenarios for potential applications. The implementation of the design into a prototype device is discussed in details. The prototype has been tested, and recommendations of possible improvements and future works are proposed.