proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing : September 12-16, 2016, Heidelberg, Germany
ISBN (electronic)
9781450344623
Event
2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Pages (from-to)
385-388
Number of pages
4
Publisher
New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery
Organisations
Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract
Urban environments are full of noise and obstacles, and therefore potentially dangerous and difficult to navigate for the visually impaired. Using Bluetooth beacons and a smartphone app we guide them through these environments by providing the information needed for that specific location. We present the preliminary results concerning the usability of our approach.