Presentation 2009-02-21
Map navigation system for visually impaired people : About the effectiveness of the prior learning with the finger-tip slide guide
Akihito Namekata, Said Nazib, Naomi Kokubo, Yosihiko Nomura,
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Abstract(in English) For visually impaired independence support, I suggest the device which can learn one's place that I want to go beforehand. this system get the total distance to the place that want to go from a commercial map navigation system. And user recognize rough distance and direction by guidance with the manipulator and recognize the angles of each corner information with a finger-tip-slide-guider. I get a total image and the image at the point hereby.
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Keyword(in English) Visually inpaired people / Map navigation
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Conference Date 2009/2/13(1days)
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Title (in English) Map navigation system for visually impaired people : About the effectiveness of the prior learning with the finger-tip slide guide
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Keyword(1) Visually inpaired people
Keyword(2) Map navigation
1st Author's Name Akihito Namekata
1st Author's Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Mie University()
2nd Author's Name Said Nazib
2nd Author's Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Mie University
3rd Author's Name Naomi Kokubo
3rd Author's Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Mie University
4th Author's Name Yosihiko Nomura
4th Author's Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Mie University
Date 2009-02-21
Paper # WIT2008-65
Volume (vol) vol.108
Number (no) 435
Page pp.pp.-
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