Guiding the visually impaired through the environment using beacons

Joey van der Bie; Britte Visser; Jordy Matsari; Mijnisha Singh; Timon van Hasselt; Jan Koopman; Ben Kröse

doi:10.1145/2968219.2971387

Guiding the visually impaired through the environment using beacons

Joey van der Bie, Britte Visser, Jordy Matsari, Mijnisha Singh, Timon van Hasselt, Jan Koopman, Ben Kröse

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Urban environments are full of noise and obstacles, and therefore potentially dangerous and difficult to navigate for the visually impaired. Using Bluetooth beacons and a smartphone app we guide them through these environments by providing the information needed for that specific location. We present the preliminary results concerning the usability of our approach.

Original language	English
Pages	385–388
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2971387
Publication status	Published - 25 Jun 2017
Event	UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct - Duration: 12 Sept 2016 → 16 Sept 2016

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Conference	UbiComp '16
Period	12/09/16 → 16/09/16

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Guiding the Visually Impaired through the Environment with Beacons
van der Bie, J. (Speaker)
21 Mar 2017 → 22 Mar 2017
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Grand EyeBeacons project
van der Bie, J. (Recipient), Jaschinski, C. (Recipient), Nait Aicha, A. (Recipient), Ben Allouch, S. (Recipient), Kröse, B. J. A. (Recipient), van Hasselt, T. (Recipient), Koopman, J. (Recipient), de Nooij, P. (Recipient), Kat, D. (Recipient) & van der Geest, T. (Recipient), 19 Jan 2017
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