SEES: Concept and design of a smart environment explorer stick

M. Yusro, K. M. Hou, E. Pissaloux, H. L. Shi, Kalamullah Ramli, Dodi Sudiana

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Abstract

Visually Impaired Person or People (VIP) need to improve both orientation and mobility capabilities in order to be able to walk autonomously and safely using a white stick (cane). However, the feedback provided by an enhanced white stick (smart stick) does not integrate assistance to orientation and walking functions. This paper proposes to fill this gap and outlines the SEES (Smart Environment Explorer Stick) an enhanced white cane which assists the VIP's navigation. The active multi-sensor context-awareness concept is adopted to be implemented in the SEES to help the VIP to move safely and easily in any places (indoor or outdoor). The first prototype of SEES (hardware and software) is presented in this paper.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 6th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2013
Pages70-77
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event2013 6th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2013 - Gdansk, Sopot, Poland
Duration: 6 Jun 20138 Jun 2013

Publication series

Name2013 6th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2013

Conference

Conference2013 6th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2013
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityGdansk, Sopot
Period6/06/138/06/13

Keywords

  • GPS
  • Google map
  • Visually Impaired People (VIP) navigation
  • assistive device
  • context-awareness
  • multi-sensor
  • orientation
  • smart stick
  • ubiquitous SEES
  • walking
  • web service

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