...Giulio Lancioni; Gloria Alberti; Francesco Pezzuoli; Juri Bruciati; Nirbhay Singh; Mark O'Reilly; Jeff Sigafoos Purpose This study assessed two technology systems aimed at enabling a man with intellectual disability, blindness, deafness and motor and tactile discrimination problems to make verbal...

...Susanne Zimmermann-Janschitz; Simon Landauer; Sebastian Drexel; Jana Obermeier Purpose The study aims to promote independent mobility for persons with visual impairment or legal blindness (VIB) by developing a Web-based wayfinding application using geographic information systems (GIS). While...

...Orly Lahav; Nuha Chagab; Vadim Talis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine a central need of students who are blind: the ability to access science curriculum content. Design/methodology/approach Agent-based modeling is a relatively new computational modeling paradigm that models...

...Roberto Manduchi; James Coughlan; Klaus Miesenberger; James M. Coughlan; Huiying Shen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe recent progress on the “Crosswatch” project, a smartphone‐based system developed for providing guidance to blind and visually impaired travelers at traffic...

... to an IMU can give a better way of navigating for the visually impaired; in especial using the information about heading and distance to the final destination. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 GPS IMU Visually impaired Smart Phone Blindness Navigation Some...

...Orly Lahav; David Schloerb; Siddarth Kumar; Mandyam Srinivasan Purpose This research is based on the hypothesis that the supply of appropriate perceptual and conceptual information through compensatory sensorial channels may assist people who are blind with anticipatory exploration. The two main...