Overview
The goal of this project is to improve the navigation and orientation possibilities
of blind or partially sighted persons using mobile devices, which can unite local
sensor information with model information from site-based services.
The data stored in environment models are to be laid over mapped objects with local
measurements of distance, size and color. In this way an identification of objects
and thus their acoustic designation is possible. At the same time the environment
model can be updated by fusion of these data.
Based on these services a navigation aid is to be developed, which accomplishes a
route planning appropriate for blind during input of a desired goal. Under constant
alignment of sensor and model information this navigation aid can help the user to
avoid obstacles on the way. Beyond that the navigation aid is to make access possible
to further services developing within the field of research like virtual advertising
columns, localization of other users etc..
Publications
- A. Hub, J. Diepstraten and T. Ertl.
Design and Development of an Indoor Navigation and Object Identification
System for the Blind. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS conference on
Computers and accessibility, Designing for accessibility, Atlanta, GA, USA,
147-152, 2004.
- A. Hub, J. Diepstraten and T. Ertl.
Augmented Indoor Modeling for Navigation Support for the Blind.
Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Computers for
People with Special Needs, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 54-59, 2005.
- A. Hub, J. Diepstraten and T. Ertl.
Design of an Object Identification and Orientation Assistant for the
Deafblind. Conference Proceedings of the 6th DbI European Conference
on Deafblindness, Presov, Slowakia, 2005.
- A. Hub, J. Diepstraten and T. Ertl.
Learning Foreign Languages by using a new type of Orientation
Assistant for the Blind. Conference Proceedings: International
Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment, European
Conference, Chemnitz, Germany, 339-341, 2005.
- A. Hub, T. Hartter and T. Ertl.
Interactive Localization and Recognition of Objects for the Blind.
California State University, Northridge Center on Disabilities' 21st
Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference,
Los Angeles, CA, 2006. http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2006/proceedings/2661.htm
- A. Hub, S. Kombrink and T. Ertl.
Tactile-Acoustical Navigation Assistant for Real and Virtual Explorations
of the Environment. Conference Proceedings of the 1st Multi-disciplinary
Vision Rehabilitation & Research Conference ENVISION 06, September 21-24,
Kansas City, MO, USA, 48, 2006.
- A. Hub, T. Hartter and T. Ertl.
Interactive Tracking of Movable Objects for the Blind on the Basis of
Environment Models and Perception-Oriented Object Recognition Methods.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility,
October 23-25, Portland, OR, USA, 111-118, 2006.
- A. Hub, S. Kombrink, K. Bosse and T. Ertl.
TANIA - A Tactile-Acoustical Navigation and Information Assistant for the 2007
CSUN Conference. To appear in: Conference Proceedings of the California State
University, Northridge Center on Disabilities' 22nd Annual International Technology
and Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 19-24, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2007.
Links
More Information
Cooperation Partner
Xsens Motion Technologies
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2. Heidelberger Innovationsforum, May 2006
