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PERCEPT Indoor Navigation System for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Architecture and Experimentation

We introduce PERCEPT system, an indoor navigation system for the blind and visually impaired. PERCEPT will improve the quality of life and health of the visually impaired community by enabling independent living. Using PERCEPT, blind users will have independent access to public health facilities suc...

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Autores principales: Ganz, Aura, Schafer, James, Gandhi, Siddhesh, Puleo, Elaine, Wilson, Carole, Robertson, Meg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3534355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/894869
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author Ganz, Aura
Schafer, James
Gandhi, Siddhesh
Puleo, Elaine
Wilson, Carole
Robertson, Meg
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description We introduce PERCEPT system, an indoor navigation system for the blind and visually impaired. PERCEPT will improve the quality of life and health of the visually impaired community by enabling independent living. Using PERCEPT, blind users will have independent access to public health facilities such as clinics, hospitals, and wellness centers. Access to healthcare facilities is crucial for this population due to the multiple health conditions that they face such as diabetes and its complications. PERCEPT system trials with 24 blind and visually impaired users in a multistory building show PERCEPT system effectiveness in providing appropriate navigation instructions to these users. The uniqueness of our system is that it is affordable and that its design follows orientation and mobility principles. We hope that PERCEPT will become a standard deployed in all indoor public spaces, especially in healthcare and wellness facilities.
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spelling pubmed-35343552013-01-11 PERCEPT Indoor Navigation System for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Architecture and Experimentation Ganz, Aura Schafer, James Gandhi, Siddhesh Puleo, Elaine Wilson, Carole Robertson, Meg Int J Telemed Appl Research Article We introduce PERCEPT system, an indoor navigation system for the blind and visually impaired. PERCEPT will improve the quality of life and health of the visually impaired community by enabling independent living. Using PERCEPT, blind users will have independent access to public health facilities such as clinics, hospitals, and wellness centers. Access to healthcare facilities is crucial for this population due to the multiple health conditions that they face such as diabetes and its complications. PERCEPT system trials with 24 blind and visually impaired users in a multistory building show PERCEPT system effectiveness in providing appropriate navigation instructions to these users. The uniqueness of our system is that it is affordable and that its design follows orientation and mobility principles. We hope that PERCEPT will become a standard deployed in all indoor public spaces, especially in healthcare and wellness facilities. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3534355/ /pubmed/23316225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/894869 Text en Copyright © 2012 Aura Ganz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/894869
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