Connected cane: Tactile button input for controlling gestures of iOS voiceover embedded in a white cane

Batterman, Jared M.; Martin, V.; Yeung, Kai; Walker, Bruce N.

doi:10.1080/10400435.2016.1265024

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“…In presenting the results of the literature review an overview of the corpus of papers found in the search will first be provided in order to offer a detailed context for the review findings; particularly in relation to access needs, age range, technologies and intended purpose of technology use .18 papers involved users with sensory impairments as their primary user group. Of these, three involved blind users [21,20,33]; seven involved visually impaired users; three involved both blind and visually impaired users [17,18,20]); two involved deaf users [29,31]; two involved deaf or hard of hearing users [24,28]and one involved hard of hearing users [22]. 14 papers involved users with learning disability as their primary user group.…”

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“…15 papers reported focusing on re-designing existing technologies. For example one study involving users with sensory impairments focused on designing a tactile button interface that could control the native Voice-Over Gesture navigations of IOS devices [18]. There were nine intended purposes of the technologies that the projects were developing: communication, daily living, education, employment, health, accessing information, leisure, safety and travel.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There were nine intended purposes of the technologies that the projects were developing: communication, daily living, education, employment, health, accessing information, leisure, safety and travel. It is noticeable that the projects that focused on education involved just users with sensory impairments [18,23,28]. The projects that focused on health involved just users with learning disability [37,45].The average size of the user group was 11 (range 1 to 48).…”

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confidence: 99%

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In Search of a Decision-Making Framework for Involving Users Who Have Learning Disabilities or Sensory Impairments in the Process of Designing Future Technologies

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Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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A comprehensive literature review was undertaken in order to identify design approaches that have been employed with users who have learning disabilities or sensory impairment; the factors that influenced their choices and the extent to which the approaches and techniques adopted were successful. There was a huge variation across the corpus regarding whether a justification was offered for the choice of approach and the extent to which those justifications were supported by evidence. In addition there was a lack of comprehensive evaluation of the design approaches. Technology designers who intend working with users with learning disabilities or sensory impairments therefore currently have little to help them decide which design approach might be the most appropriate or effective.

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Section: Review Methodsmentioning

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Section: Review Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Review Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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In Search of a Decision-Making Framework for Involving Users Who Have Learning Disabilities or Sensory Impairments in the Process of Designing Future Technologies

Tai-Seale

Carrizosa

Rix

et al. 2019

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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“…(Ye et al 2014) recognize the obstacles along with estimating cane pose using Visual Range Odometry (VRO) method. (Batterman et al 2017) connected a tactile button to the handle of the white cane for accessing iOS navigation apps such as Blind Square and Seeing Eye, where the input chosen by the blind users is spoken loudly by the VoiceOver app to assist them in making correct selections. The benefit of adopting this approach is accessing the smartphone without holding it.…”

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Peer Review #2 of "Technology-assisted white cane: evaluation and future directions (v0.1)"

Dagnelie¹

2018

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Background. Several technology-assisted aids are available to help blind and visually impaired people perform their daily activities. The current research uses the state-of-the-art technology to enhance the utility of traditional navigational aids to produce solutions that are more reliable. In this regard, a white cane is no exception, which is supplemented with the existing technologies to design Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs), Electronic Orientation Aids (EOAs), and Position Locator Devices (PLDs). Although several review articles uncover the strengths and limitations of research contributions that extend traditional navigational aids, we find no review article that covers research contributions on a technology-assisted white cane. The authors attempt to fill this literature gap by reviewing the most relevant research articles published during 2010-2017 with the common objective of enhancing the utility of white cane with the existing technology. Methods. The authors have collected the relevant literature published during 2010-17 by searching and browsing all the major digital libraries and publishers' websites. The inclusion/exclusion criteria were applied to select the research articles that are relevant to the topic of this review article, and all other irrelevant papers were excluded. Among the 577 (534 through database searching and 43 through other sources) initially screened papers, the authors collected 228 full-text articles, which after applying exclusion/ inclusion criteria resulted in 36 papers that were included in the evaluation, comparison, and discussion. This also includes research articles of commercially available aids published before the specified range. Results. The findings show that the research trend is shifting towards developing a technology-assisted white cane solution that is applicable in both indoor and outdoor environments to aid blind users in navigation. In this regard, exploiting smartphone to develop low-cost and user-friendly navigation solution is among the best research opportunities to explore. In addition, the authors contribute a theoretical evaluation framework to compare and evaluate the state-of-the-art solutions, identify research trends and future directions. Discussion. Researchers have been in the quest to find out ways of enhancing the utility of white cane using existing technology. However, for a more reliable enhancement, the design should have usercentric characteristics. It should be portable, reliable, trustworthy , lightweight, less costly, less power hungry, and require minimal training with special emphasis on its ergonomics and social acceptance. Smartphones, which are the ubiquitous and general-purpose portable devices, should be considered to exploit its capabilities in making technology-assisted white cane smarter and reliable.

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“…Owing to the everincreasing blind and visually impaired population, assistive devices have constantly been in a huge demand for recent years [6]. For instance, as a traditional mobility aid, the white cane is the most popular among blind and visually impaired people (VIP) [7]. However, the performance is far from satisfactory as common white canes indicate limited information of obstacle position.…”

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An Overview of Assistive Devices for Blind and Visually Impaired People

Hu¹,

Chen²,

Zhai³

et al. 2019

International Journal of Robotics and Automation

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Across the world, there are approximately 253 million people with vision impairments, and assistive devices have constantly been in demand. Advanced research has led to the development of numerous assistive devices for blind people and visually impaired people (VIP) to improve their quality of life. An overview of these different types of assistive devices such as canes, glasses, hats and gloves is presented in this survey. A FCBPSS (F: function, C: context, B: behaviour, P: principle, S: state, S: structure) architecture of visual impairment assistance system is preliminarily proposed to allow other researchers to design the assistive devices with the good experience and the high performance for blind people and VIPs in the future. As VIPs and blind people may have different behaviour patterns, a criterion for classifying different types of vision impairments is presented. Subsequently, we classify the substitutive senses for visual perception into five categories: vision enhancement, audition, somatosense, visual prosthesis, and olfactory and gustation. Two commonly used feedback forms, namely audition and vibration, are elaborated.Based on literature survey, we also present a summary prospective of the development of assistive devices: add more sensing and feedback modules, use the knowledge of perception mechanism and behaviour pattern as the design guideline and design more reliable validation experiments.

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Connected cane: Tactile button input for controlling gestures of iOS voiceover embedded in a white cane

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

In Search of a Decision-Making Framework for Involving Users Who Have Learning Disabilities or Sensory Impairments in the Process of Designing Future Technologies

In Search of a Decision-Making Framework for Involving Users Who Have Learning Disabilities or Sensory Impairments in the Process of Designing Future Technologies

Peer Review #2 of "Technology-assisted white cane: evaluation and future directions (v0.1)"

An Overview of Assistive Devices for Blind and Visually Impaired People

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