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Easily Guiding of Blind: Providing Information and Navigation - SmartNav

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This work intends to provide an assistive technology that helps blind persons to independently navigate inside public spaces. Blind persons often travel through known routes as they already know some features of it. Our technology helps users to travel through unknown spaces and find products or services available there. It is supported by personal smartphones running Android OS and beacons deployed in the space.

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  1. Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Karen Duarte, José Cecílio & Pedro Furtado

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  1. Karen Duarte
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  1. University of Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal

    Shahid Mumtaz

  2. Institute of Telecommunication, Aveiro, Portugal

    Jonathan Rodriguez

  3. Finland Technical, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Marcos Katz

  4. InterDigital Communications, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Chonggang Wang

  5. Departamento de Matemática e Engenharias, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

    Alberto Nascimento

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Duarte, K., Cecílio, J., Furtado, P. (2015). Easily Guiding of Blind: Providing Information and Navigation - SmartNav. In: Mumtaz, S., Rodriguez, J., Katz, M., Wang, C., Nascimento, A. (eds) Wireless Internet. WICON 2014. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 146. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18802-7_18

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18802-7_18

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