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Guiding the visually impaired through the environment using beacons

van der Bie, Joey; Visser, Britte; Matsari, Jordy; Singh, Mijnisha; van Hasselt, Timon; Koopman, Jan; Kröse, Ben (Faculteit Digitale Media En Creatieve Industrie (Fdmci))

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 …

2017-06-25AlgemeenConferentiebijdrage

Guiding the visually impaired through the environment with beacons

van der Bie, Joey; Visser, Britte; Matsari, Jordy; Singh, Mijnisha; Van Hasselt, Timon; Koopman, Jan; Kröse, Ben; Lukowicz, Paul

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 …

2016-09-12AlgemeenConferentiebijdrage

Internet of touch: analysis and synthesis of touch across wearable and mobile devices

Darriba Frederiks, Aduén; Kröse, Ben J.A.; Huisman, Gijs

We demonstrate a method that allows two users to communicate remotely using their sense of touch by dynamically applying vibrotactile feedback to one user's forearm using two different input methods. User input on a standard mobile touch-screen device or a purpose-built touch-sensitive wearable is analyzed …

2016AlgemeenConferentiebijdrage

Guiding the visually impaired through the environment using beacons

Guiding the visually impaired through the environment with beacons

Internet of touch: analysis and synthesis of touch across wearable and mobile devices

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