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Pointing for non-visual orientation and navigation

Magnusson, Charlotte LU orcid ; Molina, Miguel LU ; Rassmus-Gröhn, Kirsten LU orcid and Szymczak, Delphine LU (2010) NordiCHI - Nordic conference on human-computer interaction p.735-738
Abstract
People who have visual impairments may have difficulties navigating freely and without personal assistance, and some are even afraid to go out alone. Current navigation devices with non-visual feedback are quite expensive, few, and are in general focused on routing and target finding. We have developed a test prototype application running on the Android platform in which a user may scan for map information using the mobile phone as a pointing device to orient herself and to choose targets for navigation and be guided to them. It has previously been shown in proof of concept studies that scanning and pointing to get information about different locations, or to use it to be guided to a point, can be useful. In the present study we describe... (More)
People who have visual impairments may have difficulties navigating freely and without personal assistance, and some are even afraid to go out alone. Current navigation devices with non-visual feedback are quite expensive, few, and are in general focused on routing and target finding. We have developed a test prototype application running on the Android platform in which a user may scan for map information using the mobile phone as a pointing device to orient herself and to choose targets for navigation and be guided to them. It has previously been shown in proof of concept studies that scanning and pointing to get information about different locations, or to use it to be guided to a point, can be useful. In the present study we describe the design of PointNav, a prototype navigational application, and report initial results from a recent test with visually impaired and sighted users. (Less)
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keywords
Non-visual, interaction, navigation, GPS, compass, audio-haptic, augmented reality
host publication
Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
pages
4 pages
publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
conference name
NordiCHI - Nordic conference on human-computer interaction
conference location
Reykjavik, Iceland
conference dates
2010-10-16 - 2010-10-20
external identifiers
  • scopus:78650112538
ISBN
978-1-60558-934-3
DOI
10.1145/1868914.1869017
project
HaptiMap - Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps and Location Based Services
language
English
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yes
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72ce35ed-998c-4abd-a1f0-82821a6c50ce (old id 2223494)
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  abstract     = {{People who have visual impairments may have difficulties navigating freely and without personal assistance, and some are even afraid to go out alone. Current navigation devices with non-visual feedback are quite expensive, few, and are in general focused on routing and target finding. We have developed a test prototype application running on the Android platform in which a user may scan for map information using the mobile phone as a pointing device to orient herself and to choose targets for navigation and be guided to them. It has previously been shown in proof of concept studies that scanning and pointing to get information about different locations, or to use it to be guided to a point, can be useful. In the present study we describe the design of PointNav, a prototype navigational application, and report initial results from a recent test with visually impaired and sighted users.}},
  author       = {{Magnusson, Charlotte and Molina, Miguel and Rassmus-Gröhn, Kirsten and Szymczak, Delphine}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-60558-934-3}},
  keywords     = {{Non-visual; interaction; navigation; GPS; compass; audio-haptic; augmented reality}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{735--738}},
  publisher    = {{Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}},
  title        = {{Pointing for non-visual orientation and navigation}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/5434655/3045784.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1145/1868914.1869017}},
  year         = {{2010}},
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