Towards More Universal Wayfinding Technologies: Navigation Preferences Across Disabilities

Gupta, Maya; Abdolrahmani, Ali; Edwards, Emory James; Cortez, Mayra; Tumang, Andrew; Majali, Yasmin; Lazaga, Marc; Tarra, Samhitha; Patil, Prasad; Kuber, Ravi; Branham, Stacy M.

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376581

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“…Looking at the research related to the route selection, disabled people require enjoyable, safer paths that are appropriate to their needs (fewer turns, more traffic lights, and so on) rather than the routes selected primarily on distance [ 127 ]. Therefore, customised criteria are considered a more promising approach than the simple distance based approach.…”

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A Systematic Review of Urban Navigation Systems for Visually Impaired People

El-taher

Taha

Courtney

et al. 2021

Sensors

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Blind and Visually impaired people (BVIP) face a range of practical difficulties when undertaking outdoor journeys as pedestrians. Over the past decade, a variety of assistive devices have been researched and developed to help BVIP navigate more safely and independently. In addition, research in overlapping domains are addressing the problem of automatic environment interpretation using computer vision and machine learning, particularly deep learning, approaches. Our aim in this article is to present a comprehensive review of research directly in, or relevant to, assistive outdoor navigation for BVIP. We breakdown the navigation area into a series of navigation phases and tasks. We then use this structure for our systematic review of research, analysing articles, methods, datasets and current limitations by task. We also provide an overview of commercial and non-commercial navigation applications targeted at BVIP. Our review contributes to the body of knowledge by providing a comprehensive, structured analysis of work in the domain, including the state of the art, and guidance on future directions. It will support both researchers and other stakeholders in the domain to establish an informed view of research progress.

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Section: Journey Planningmentioning

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“…Selection of the optimal route for BVIP is not about the shortest path. It is about an enjoyable, safe, well supported route appropriate to their needs (fewer turns, more traffic lights, and so on) [ 127 ]. Most of the navigation systems for BVIP do not discuss using public transportation.…”

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A Systematic Review of Urban Navigation Systems for Visually Impaired People

El-taher

Taha

Courtney

et al. 2021

Sensors

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“…Thus, the information need for planning a travel is very high [15,56]. Access to accessibility-related information is therefore crucial for people with VI and MI to travel independently to unknown places [21,28,56]. In addition, such information needs to be reliable and up-to-date to be useful for a traveler [28,29,39,41,46].…”

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“…Access to accessibility-related information is therefore crucial for people with VI and MI to travel independently to unknown places [21,28,56]. In addition, such information needs to be reliable and up-to-date to be useful for a traveler [28,29,39,41,46]. As people not familiar with speciic disability needs prove to be unreliable sources of accessibility information [28,41,46], technology assistance becomes even more important [17] and is sometimes preferred over human help [28].…”

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Traveling More Independently: A Study on the Diverse Needs and Challenges of People with Visual or Mobility Impairments in Unfamiliar Indoor Environments

Müller

Engel

Loitsch

et al. 2022

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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It is much more difficult for people with visual or mobility impairments to prepare for a trip or visit unfamiliar places than it is for people without disabilities. In addition to the usual travel arrangements, one needs to know if the various parts of the travel chain are accessible. To the best of our knowledge, there is no previous work that examines in depth travel behaviour for indoor environments for both trip planning and execution, highlighting the special needs of people with low vision, blindness or mobility impairments. In this paper, we present a survey with 125 participants with blindness, low vision and mobility impairments. We investigate how mobile they are, what strategies they use to prepare a journey to an unknown building, how they orient themselves there and what materials they use. For all three groups, our results provide insights into the problem space of the specific information needs when planning and executing a trip. We found that most of our participants have specific mobility problems depending on their disability. Feedback from the participants reveals there is a large information gap, especially for orientation in buildings, regarding availability of high-quality digital, tactile and printable indoor maps, accessibility of buildings and mobility supporting systems. In particular, there is a lack of available and high-quality indoor maps. Our analysis also points out that the specific needs differ for the three groups. Besides the expected between-group differences, also large in-group differences can be found. The current paper is an expanded version of [18] augmented by data of people with mobility impairments.

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“…Also, the importance of inclusive communication outside of automated vehicles with other road users that are vision-impaired has been stressed by [2]. However, the accessibility requirements between different groups of impairments might differ, e.g., differ in the way they navigate [6]. Just recently there have been efforts made to push the inclusive and accessible design research, e.g., by workshops of Löcken et al [7] or Owens et al [9].…”

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Workshop on the Design of Inclusive and Accessible Future Mobility

Detjen

Geisler

Schneegaß

et al. 2021

13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

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Through automation, future mobility has the potential to offer services to a broader range of users than ever before. However, users at the margins are often not represented in the design process or vehicles, and specifically automated vehicles. This can lead to these users being overlooked and ultimately excluded from the use of automated mobility services. Therefore, it is vital to raise awareness for the inclusive design of future mobility services and reflect on how they can become part of automotive design and research practices. In this AutomotiveUI 2021 workshop, we will explore this topic from different angles through expert talks and reflections, followed by discussions. The expected outcome of the workshop is the development of and work on an agenda for accessible and inclusive mobility in the age of automated vehicles. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Mobile computing; Ubiquitous computing.

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Towards More Universal Wayfinding Technologies: Navigation Preferences Across Disabilities

Cited by 23 publications

References 34 publications

A Systematic Review of Urban Navigation Systems for Visually Impaired People

A Systematic Review of Urban Navigation Systems for Visually Impaired People

Traveling More Independently: A Study on the Diverse Needs and Challenges of People with Visual or Mobility Impairments in Unfamiliar Indoor Environments

Workshop on the Design of Inclusive and Accessible Future Mobility

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