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Project Type/Research Category: Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects.
Funding Priority: Technology for Access and Function.
For more information on NIDRR's funding priorities, read about NIDRR's Core Areas of Research at http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/core-area.html.
Wayfinding Technologies for People with Visual Impairments: Research and Development of an Integrated Platform.
This project has completed its research activities and is now closed. Check REHABDATA data for documents.
Sendero Group, LLC.
1118 Maple Lane.
Davis, CA 95616-1723.
E-mail: mikemay@senderogroup.com.
URL(s): http://www.wayfinding.org.
Principal Investigator: Michael May.
Public Contact Phone: 530/757-6800.
Fax: 530/757-6830.
Project Number: H133A011903.
Start Date: December 1, 2001.
Length: 60 months.
NIDRR Officer: Dawn Carlson, PhD, MPH.
NIDRR Funding: FY 01 $449,065; FY 02 $449,895; FY 03 $449,444; FY 04 $445,486; FY 05 $447,929; FY 06 $0.
Abstract:
This project develops a hardware and software platform that provides accessible location and navigation information for people who are blind or who have visual impairments who are traveling in indoor and outdoor environments. Development activities focus on creating an effective user interface and developing a common hardware and software platform that exploits the Global Positioning System (GPS) and other current and emerging navigation technologies. Specific activities include integrating navigation aids that have been developed by Sendero LLC (GPS Talk) and by the University of California-Santa Barbara/CMU group headed by Jack Loomis (the Personal Guidance System, or PGS). The platform also accesses information from other devices, including Talking-Signs™ type devices, intersection signalization controls, an indoor digital sign system to be developed during this project at the University of Minnesota, a spatialized tactile stimulator to be developed at UCSB, a dead reckoning pedestrian navigation system, and cellular phones with GPS capabilities. For navigating in outdoor environments, a system could aid pedestrians who are blind at complex intersections and roundabouts, and devices could assess and prevent veer.
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual impairments, Assistive technology.
Documents in REHABDATA:
Accessible GPS: Reorientation and target location among users with visual impairments.
Assessment of indoor route-finding technology for people who are visually impaired.
Finding a target with an accessible global positioning system.
Nonvisual route following with guidance from a simple haptic or auditory display.
Stated preferences for components of a personal guidance system for nonvisual navigation.
Variability in the length and frequency of steps of sighted and visually impaired walkers.
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