How Users, Facility Managers, and Bystanders Perceive and Accept a Navigation Robot for Visually Impaired People in Public Buildings

Kayukawa, Seita; Sato, Daisuke; Masayuki, Murata; Ishihara, Tatsuya; Kosugi, Akihiro; Takagi, Hironobu; Morishima, Shigeo; Asakawa, Chieko

doi:10.1109/ro-man53752.2022.9900717

Cited by 11 publications

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“…One of the possible ways to achieve this is to exploit physical interaction with the guest. Robots that guide a visitor through physical contact between the robot and the visitor, such as LIGHBOT [16] or the suitcase-type robot [17], are intended to help visually impaired people. This interaction between humans occurs in a close relationship, and research on hand-holding human-robot interaction has been conducted, such as Hasegawa et al's Mako-no-te [18]; however, its application to tour-guiding has been limited.…”

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Development of a Personal Guide Robot That Leads a Guest Hand-in-Hand While Keeping a Distance

Wakabayashi,

Hiroi,

Miyawaki

et al. 2024

Sensors

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This paper proposes a novel tour guide robot, “ASAHI ReBorn”, which can lead a guest by hand one-on-one while maintaining a proper distance from the guest. The robot uses a stretchable arm interface to hold the guest’s hand and adjusts its speed according to the guest’s pace. The robot also follows a given guide path accurately using the Robot Side method, a robot navigation method that follows a pre-defined path quickly and accurately. In addition, a control method is introduced that limits the angular velocity of the robot to avoid the robot’s quick turn while guiding the guest. We evaluated the performance and usability of the proposed robot through experiments and user studies. The tour-guiding experiment revealed that the proposed method that keeps distance between the robot and the guest using the stretchable arm enables the guests to look around the exhibits compared with the condition where the robot moved at a constant velocity.

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Development of a Personal Guide Robot That Leads a Guest Hand-in-Hand While Keeping a Distance

Wakabayashi,

Hiroi,

Miyawaki

et al. 2024

Sensors

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“…Different guide assistive technologies constitute different guide systems mounted on different guide equipment. For example, the guide system is equipped with the cane [ 5 ], navigation belt [ 6 ], guide glasses [ 7 ], guide cap [ 8 ] (navigation helmet [ 9 ]), hand-worn guide instrument [ 10 ], head-mounted guide instrument [ 11 ], guide robot [ 12 ] (guide suitcase [ 13 ]), electronic guide dog [ 14 ], guide drone [ 15 ], guide mobile device (smartphone [ 16 ], tablet computer [ 17 ]) and other carriers to form different guide equipment. Through these guide devices, the visually impaired can obtain the direction and distance information of pedestrians and obstacles on the road as well as the road condition information that needs attention.…”

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Laser Sensing and Vision Sensing Smart Blind Cane: A Review

Mai

Xie

Zeng

et al. 2023

Sensors

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Laser sensing and vision sensing smart canes can improve the convenience of travel for the visually impaired, but for the present, most of the system functions of laser sensing and vision sensing smart canes are still defective. Guide equipment and smart blind canes are introduced and classified first, and the smart blind canes based on vision sensing, laser sensing and laser vision sensing are investigated, respectively, and the research status of laser vision sensing smart blind canes is sorted out. The advantages and disadvantages of various laser vision sensing smart blind canes are summarized, especially the research development of laser vision fusion as the core of new smart canes. The future development prospects of laser vision sensing smart blind cane are overviewed, to boost the development of laser vision sensing smart blind cane, to provide safe and efficient travel guarantee for the visually impaired.

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Evaluation of Cognitive Assistance for Visual Impairment to Recognize Dynamic Walking Environments Using Vibrotactile Stimulation

Sato,

Niitsuma

2023

IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

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How Users, Facility Managers, and Bystanders Perceive and Accept a Navigation Robot for Visually Impaired People in Public Buildings

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Development of a Personal Guide Robot That Leads a Guest Hand-in-Hand While Keeping a Distance

Development of a Personal Guide Robot That Leads a Guest Hand-in-Hand While Keeping a Distance

Laser Sensing and Vision Sensing Smart Blind Cane: A Review

Evaluation of Cognitive Assistance for Visual Impairment to Recognize Dynamic Walking Environments Using Vibrotactile Stimulation

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