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ICRA
1994
IEEE
99views Robotics» more  ICRA 1994»
15 years 2 months ago
Mobile Robot Obstacle Avoidance in a Computerized Travel Aid for the Blind
A blind traveler walking through an unfamiliar environment, and a mobile robot navigating through a cluttered environment have an important feature in common: both have the kinema...
Shraga Shoval, Johann Borenstein, Yoram Koren
HCI
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Automatically Structuring Text for Audio Learning
In recent years podcasting has been in great demand as a recreation and a learning tool. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a system for automatically conve...
Barbara Leporini, Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzz...
ACE
2004
188views Education» more  ACE 2004»
14 years 11 months ago
A Computing Education Vision for the Sight Impaired
Vision is the main sensory modality employed in learning. Teaching materials in the areas of information technology and computer engineering are highly visual in nature and vision...
Iain Murray, Helen Armstrong
ASSETS
2005
ACM
15 years 17 hour ago
Gist summaries for visually impaired surfers
Anecdotal evidence suggests that Web document summaries provide the sighted reader with a basis for making decisions regarding the route to take within non-linear text; and additi...
Simon Harper, Neha Patel
UIC
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
A Smartphone-Based Obstacle Sensor for the Visually Impaired
In this paper, we present a real-time obstacle detection system for the mobility improvement for the visually impaired using a handheld Smartphone. Though there are many existing a...
En Peng, Patrick Peursum, Ling Li, Svetha Venkates...