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Wearable interfaces for orientation and wayfinding

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Assets '00: Proceedings of the fourth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies

Pages 193 - 200

https://doi.org/10.1145/354324.354380

Published: 13 November 2000 Publication History

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People with severe visual impairment need a means of remaining oriented to their environment as they move through it. Three wearable orientation interfaces were developed and evaluated toward this purpose: a stereophonic sonic guide (sonic ?carrot?), speech output, and shoulder-tapping system. Street crossing was used as a critical test setting in which to evaluate these interfaces. The shoulder-tapping system was found most universally usable. Considering the great variety of co-morbidities within this population, the authors concluded that a combined tapping/speech interface would provide usability and flexibility to the greatest number of people under the widest range of environmental conditions.

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Assets '00: Proceedings of the fourth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies

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DOI:10.1145/354324

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