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Proof Experiment of LED Block Equipped with Projections to Locate Travel Direction for Blind and Vision Impaired Persons

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Crossing crosswalks is one of the most dangerous situations for visually impaired persons. Crosswalk entrances are located on the boundary with the roadway and are among the most dangerous areas for visually-impaired persons. Tactile walking surface indicators (TWSIs) are installed on the road to support independent travel for blind and low-vision individuals. We developed an LED block equipped with projections to strengthen the support of the crosswalk entrance. The blind person can sense this block through the soles of the shoes. A low-vision person can find it through the use of residual vision. Blind and visually impaired persons found that the LED block equipped with projections to locate the travel direction effectively supported crossing. The effectiveness of this block is described based on measurements and questionnaire results.

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  1. Institute of Technology and Science, Tokushima University, 2-1 Minamijosan-jima, Tokushima, 770-8506, Japan

    Hideaki Nagahama, Katsuya Sato, Sin-Ichi Ito, Motohiro Seiyama & Shoichiro Fujisawa

  2. Nipon University, 7-24-1 Narashinodai, Funabashi, Chiba, 274-8501, Japan

    Tomoyuki Inagaki

  3. Kictec Inc., 150 Umegaoka, Agui, Chita, Aichi, 470-2295, Japan

    Norihiro Ikeda, Kiyohito Takeuchi & Hiroshi Ogino

  4. General Support Co. for the Visually Impaired, 2-37-10 Kamiogi, Suginami, Tokyo, 167-0043, Japan

    Kazuya Takahashi

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and the Environme, University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and the Environme, Southampton, United Kingdom

    Neville A. Stanton

  2. Purdue University , West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Steven Landry

  3. Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi “G.d’Annunzio” Chiet, Pescara, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico

  4. Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi “G.d’Annunzio” Chiet, Pescara, Italy

    Andrea Vallicelli

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Nagahama, H. et al. (2017). Proof Experiment of LED Block Equipped with Projections to Locate Travel Direction for Blind and Vision Impaired Persons. In: Stanton, N., Landry, S., Di Bucchianico, G., Vallicelli, A. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 484. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41682-3_14

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