Research Article
Tele-guidance Based Navigation System for the Visually Impaired and Blind Persons
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_2, author={Babar Chaudary and Iikka Paajala and Eliud Keino and Petri Pulli}, title={Tele-guidance Based Navigation System for the Visually Impaired and Blind Persons}, proceedings={eHealth 360°. International Summit on eHealth, Budapest, Hungary, June 14-16, 2016, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={EHEALTH360}, year={2017}, month={1}, keywords={Tele-assistance Tele-presence Real-time Navigation Remote care Caregiver Visually impaired Blind Acceptance Qualitative UTAUT}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_2} }- Babar Chaudary
Iikka Paajala
Eliud Keino
Petri Pulli
Year: 2017
Tele-guidance Based Navigation System for the Visually Impaired and Blind Persons
EHEALTH360
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_2
Abstract
The design and development of tele-assistance services have taken a great consideration in the domain of healthcare lately. With the growing proportion of dependent people (ageing, disabled users) in the society, tele-assistance and tele-monitoring platforms will play a significant role to provide an efficient and economical remote care. It will allow aged or disabled persons to maintain their independence and lessen the burden and cost of care by caregivers. The concept of proposed tele-guidance system is based on the idea that a blind pedestrian can be assisted by spoken instructions from a remote caregiver who receives a live video stream from a camera carried by the visually impaired persons (VIP). The ICT based assistive tools have acceptance issues by visually impaired persons. It is important while designing navigation tools for the VIP to keep in view the factors that restrain them from the adoption of assistive technology. This paper presents a tele-guidance based navigation assistance system for the VIP and blind persons and reports a qualitative study about attitude of VIP towards technological navigation assistance.
