Way 1: Offering Voice Guidance and Verbal Cues for Navigation While walking in a new area, many elements, such as intersections and streets, may feel confusing. These elements become more worrisome for someone visually impaired. With the addition of Voice Cues, Google Maps’s Voice Guidance has...
Interactivity Improves Usability of Geographic Maps for Visually Impaired People. Human-Computer Interaction 30, (2015), 156-194.Brock, A. M., Truillet, P., Oriola, B., Picard, D., and Jouffrais, C. Interactivity improves usability of geographic maps for visually impaired people. Human-...
Whenever you travel someplace new, chances are Google Maps got you there. The action of turning right down a street or crossing a road is something most people take for granted. But this same trip for a blind or visually impaired person could be a completely different journey, and even a ...
We also explored and tested different types of advanced non-visual interaction for exploring the map. This thesis demonstrates the importance of interactive tactile maps for visually impaired people and their spatial cognition. 展开 被引量: 13 ...
This short paper describes an inexpensive method for making topographic maps to support visually impaired students. The maps are mainly for courses in geology and ecology, but maps for walking and other recreational purposes have also been produced. The method is not well suited to reproduction of...
摘要: For the visually impaired, there are various challenges to understand cognitive spatial maps, specifically for the born blind. Although a few existing audio-haptic maps provide possibilities to access关键词: braille display geographic annotation tactile map ...
Today, totally 218000 citizens of Russia have vision problems and all of them every day face multiple barriers in our unfriendly environment that is often poorly adapted for blind and visually impaired people. Despite of flourishing development of mobile sound assistance and navigation technologies, th...
is a handheld interactive smart phone maps accessory made for the visually impaired. Using tactile-sensitive haptic technology, the interface has a perforated braille-like screen with pins which move to show navigation. Constantly receiving information and adapting, Blind Maps warns of changes to the...
HaptOSM – Creating tactile maps for the blind and visually impaired3working prototype of the embossing machine already in use for production of tactile maps athttps://haptosm.de .Figure 1: Prototype embossing machine and holding deviceEssentially, it is a modified CNC router. Instead of the mi...
On the accessibility front, the platform hasimproved features for visually impaired users, offeringvoice guidancewith enhanced accuracy and providing details onaccessibility routes. These upgrades collectively aim to make the app a versatile tool that adapts to user needs in real needs in real-time an...