Abstract
Traditional turn-by-turn navigation approaches often do not provide sufficiently detailed information to help people with a visual impairment (PVI) to successfully navigate through an urban environment. To provide PVI with clear and supportive navigation information we created Sidewalk, a new wayfinding message syntax for mobile applications. Sidewalk proposes a consistent structure for detailed wayfinding instructions, short instructions and alerts. We tested Sidewalk with six PVI in the urban center of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Results show that our approach to wayfinding was positively valued by the participants.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ASSETS '19 |
Subtitle of host publication | the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility |
Editors | Jeffrey P. Bigham, Shiri Azenkot, Shaun K. Kane |
Place of Publication | New York, NY, USA |
Publisher | The Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 609-611 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781450366762 |
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Publication status | Published - Oct 2019 |
Event | The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility - The Omni William Penn Hotel , Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 28 Oct 2019 → 30 Oct 2019 Conference number: 21 https://assets19.sigaccess.org |
Conference
Conference | The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility |
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Abbreviated title | ASSETS 2019 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Pittsburgh |
Period | 28/10/19 → 30/10/19 |
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