GeoCoach: A cross-device hypermedia system to assist visually impaired people to gain environmental accessibility
| dc.contributor.author | Zeng, Limin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Weber, Gerhard | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-28T13:43:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-11-28T13:43:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Benefiting from today’s global positioning sys- tems (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS), visually impaired individuals are able to travel more independently than before. How- ever, due to a lack of accessibility information about geographic features, those navigation sys- tems fail to satisfy their special requirements. To help visually impaired people access and share environmental accessibility information in cities ubiquitously, this paper presents a collaborative and cross-device hypermedia system, namely GeoCoach. In addition to desktop computers, visually impaired people are able to access envi- ronmental accessibility on a pin-arrayed display and on mobile phones. The two user studies conducted with visually impaired users indicate that the proposed system was effective. | en |
| dc.identifier.pissn | 1432-122X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/8238 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Springer-Verlag | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Informatik Spektrum: Vol. 40, No. 6 | |
| dc.title | GeoCoach: A cross-device hypermedia system to assist visually impaired people to gain environmental accessibility | en |
| dc.type | Text/Journal Article | |
| gi.citation.endPage | 539 | |
| gi.citation.publisherPlace | Berlin Heidelberg | |
| gi.citation.startPage | 527 | |
| gi.conference.sessiontitle | Hauptbeitrag | |
| gi.document.quality | digidoc |