IO Vision - an Integrated System to Support the Visually Impaired

Date
2017
Authors
Senapathi, M
Datt, S
Mirza, F
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Conference Contribution
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Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS)
Abstract

There are many navigation systems for the visually impaired but few among them provide seamless integration of indoor -outdoor navigation. This paper reviews navigation systems that are currently available for the visually impaired and proposes the Indoor-Outdoor Vision navigation system (IO Vision) that will make navigation easier in both indoor and outdoor environments. The findings reveal that while there are many systems that support either the outdoor or indoor navigation, systems that provide seamless integration of both indoor and outdoor navigation are extremely limited. This study proposes the development of an integrated system that combines the features of indoor and outdoor systems. A long-term goal of this research is to develop a self-contained system that utilizes the principles of Geographical Positioning System(GPS)and Geographical Information System (GIS) in association with Radio Frequency Identifiers (RFID) and sensors to support the navigation of the visually impaired.

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Impairment; Navigation; Cloud Computing; Radio Frequency Identifiers; Assistive Devices
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Presented at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2017, Hobart, Australia.
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© 2017 Datt,Senapathi & Mirza. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and ACIS are credited.