DroneNavigator: Using Leashed and Free-Floating Quadcopters to Navigate Visually Impaired Travelers

被引：44

作者：

Soto, Mauro Avila ^{[1
]}

Funk, Markus ^{[1
]}

Hoppe, Matthias ^{[1
]}

Boldt, Robin ^{[1
]}

Wolf, Katrin ^{[2
]}

Henze, Niels ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 5a, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany

[2] HAW Univ Appl Sci Hamburg, Finkenau 35, D-22081 Hamburg, Germany

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGACCESS CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS AND ACCESSIBILITY (ASSETS'17) | 2017年

关键词：

Navigation Aid; Visual Impairments; Quadcopter; Drones;

D O I：

10.1145/3132525.3132556

中图分类号：

TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

Although a large number of navigation support systems for visually impaired people have been proposed in the past, navigating through unknown environments is still a major challenge for visually impaired travelers. Existing systems provide navigation information through headphones, speakers or tactile actuators. In this paper, we propose to use small lightweight quadcopters instead to provide navigation information for people with visual impairments. Using a leashed or free-floating quadcopter, the user is navigated by the distinct sound that the quadcopter emits and a haptic stimulus provided by the leash. In a user with 14 visually impaired participants, we compared leashed quadcopter navigation, free-floating quadcopter navigation, and traditional audio navigation. The results show that compared to audio navigation, participants navigate significantly faster with a free-floating quadcopter and make fewer navigation errors using the quadcopter navigation methods.

引用

页码：300 / 304

页数：5

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