TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of indoor route-finding technology for people who are visually impaired
AU - Kalia, Amy A.
AU - Legge, Gordon E.
AU - Roy, Rudrava
AU - Ogale, Advait
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - This study investigated navigation with route instructions generated by digital-map software and synthetic speech. The participants, either visually impaired or sighted wearing blindfolds, successfully located rooms in an unfamiliar building. Users with visual impairments demonstrated better route-finding performance when the technology provided distance information in the number of steps, rather than in the walking time or number of feet.
AB - This study investigated navigation with route instructions generated by digital-map software and synthetic speech. The participants, either visually impaired or sighted wearing blindfolds, successfully located rooms in an unfamiliar building. Users with visual impairments demonstrated better route-finding performance when the technology provided distance information in the number of steps, rather than in the walking time or number of feet.
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U2 - 10.1177/0145482x1010400303
DO - 10.1177/0145482x1010400303
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77950174114
VL - 104
SP - 135
EP - 147
JO - Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness
JF - Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness
SN - 0145-482X
IS - 3
ER -