Guiding the visually impaired through the environment with 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 with beacons

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

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Abstract

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
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Subtitle of host publication	Adjunct
Editors	Paul Lukowicz
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	385-388
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450344623
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2971387
Publication status	Published - 12 Sept 2016
Event	2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2016 - Heidelberg, Germany Duration: 12 Sept 2016 → 16 Sept 2016

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Conference	2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2016
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Heidelberg
Period	12/09/16 → 16/09/16

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Guiding the Visually Impaired through the Environment with Beacons
Joey van der Bie (Speaker)
21 Mar 2017 → 22 Mar 2017
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › -
Better Wayfinding for Visually Impaired People: Integrating Haptic Feedback via a Smartwatch
Joey van der Bie (Speaker)
26 Jun 2017
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Grand EyeBeacons project
van der Bie, Joey (Recipient), Jaschinski, Christina (Recipient), Nait Aicha, A. (Recipient), Ben Allouch, Somaya (Recipient), Kröse, B.J.A. (Recipient), van Hasselt, Timon (Recipient), Koopman, Jan (Recipient), de Nooij, Paul (Recipient), Kat, David (Recipient) & van der Geest, Thea (Recipient), 19 Jan 2017
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van der Bie, J., Visser, B., Matsari, J., Singh, M., Van Hasselt, T., Koopman, J., & Kröse, B. (2016). Guiding the visually impaired through the environment with beacons. In P. Lukowicz (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct (pp. 385-388). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2971387

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Guiding the visually impaired through the environment with beacons. / van der Bie, Joey; Visser, Britte; Matsari, Jordy et al.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct. ed. / Paul Lukowicz. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 385-388.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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