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SAINT-W '06 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Applications on Internet Workshops
Accessibility and usability guidelines for mobile devices in home health monitoring
ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
Mobile user tracking using a hybrid neural network
Wireless Networks
Mobility-Awareness: An Efficient Approach to Improve Energy Efficiency in Location-Aware Computing
IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
Designing of a system model for web 3D disabled access GIS on web 2.0
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
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Faced with the rapidly aging population, shrinking number of caregivers, and the promise of economic returns, the growing demand to provide more service assistance to handicapped persons and the elderly is a challenging task. In Japan, there are about 560,000 people who are in wheelchairs but they are rarely seen in public. One reason is that, they lack the information on the available facilities that cater to their needs once they go out to their destination. Providing these people with information on barrier-free facilities and other related information along their route will help boost their morale, build self-confidence, and self-reliance. In this paper, we describe the development towards a real-time and lightweight location-aware navigation service, called NaviLite, with particular focus on people in wheelchairs. We utilized the readily available handheld PHS mobile phone devices to display the location map, obstacles and danger zones within the periphery, and the suggested route to their destinations. We conducted preliminary experiments and discussed its results.