Walking support by dangerous obstacles notification using an electronic white cane

Yoshihiro Niitsu; Saki Itoh; Shinya Kitahara; Hiroya Minami; Michio Shimomura

doi:10.1109/APCC.2012.6388191

Walking support by dangerous obstacles notification using an electronic white cane

Yoshihiro Niitsu, Saki Itoh, Shinya Kitahara, Hiroya Minami, Michio Shimomura

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

5 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

People with visual impairment always might knock up against dangerous obstacles while walking, because they cannot visually get the situation. Recently electronic white canes which have sensors and provide visually impaired persons with obstacle information, have been developed. This paper proposes the method that can detect dangerous obstacles correctly and can inform visually impaired persons of them effectively. By the experiment results its effectiveness has been clarified.

Original language	English
Pages	794-799
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/APCC.2012.6388191
Publication status	Published - 2012 Dec 1
Event	18th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications: "Green and Smart Communications for IT Innovation", APCC 2012 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of Duration: 2012 Oct 15 → 2012 Oct 17

Conference

Conference	18th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications: "Green and Smart Communications for IT Innovation", APCC 2012
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Jeju Island
Period	12/10/15 → 12/10/17

Keywords

Electronic white cane
Smartphone
Ultra-sonic sensor
Visual impairment

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications

Access to Document

10.1109/APCC.2012.6388191

Cite this

Walking support by dangerous obstacles notification using an electronic white cane. / Niitsu, Yoshihiro; Itoh, Saki; Kitahara, Shinya et al.

2012. 794-799 Paper presented at 18th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications: "Green and Smart Communications for IT Innovation", APCC 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

Niitsu, Y, Itoh, S, Kitahara, S, Minami, H & Shimomura, M 2012, 'Walking support by dangerous obstacles notification using an electronic white cane', Paper presented at 18th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications: "Green and Smart Communications for IT Innovation", APCC 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 12/10/15 - 12/10/17 pp. 794-799. https://doi.org/10.1109/APCC.2012.6388191

@conference{822f5aa47a4a462ca3c39987d0ceb6c1,

title = "Walking support by dangerous obstacles notification using an electronic white cane",

abstract = "People with visual impairment always might knock up against dangerous obstacles while walking, because they cannot visually get the situation. Recently electronic white canes which have sensors and provide visually impaired persons with obstacle information, have been developed. This paper proposes the method that can detect dangerous obstacles correctly and can inform visually impaired persons of them effectively. By the experiment results its effectiveness has been clarified.",

keywords = "Electronic white cane, Smartphone, Ultra-sonic sensor, Visual impairment",

author = "Yoshihiro Niitsu and Saki Itoh and Shinya Kitahara and Hiroya Minami and Michio Shimomura",

year = "2012",

month = dec,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1109/APCC.2012.6388191",

language = "English",

pages = "794--799",

note = "18th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications: {"}Green and Smart Communications for IT Innovation{"}, APCC 2012 ; Conference date: 15-10-2012 Through 17-10-2012",

}

TY - CONF

T1 - Walking support by dangerous obstacles notification using an electronic white cane

AU - Niitsu, Yoshihiro

AU - Itoh, Saki

AU - Kitahara, Shinya

AU - Minami, Hiroya

AU - Shimomura, Michio

PY - 2012/12/1

Y1 - 2012/12/1

N2 - People with visual impairment always might knock up against dangerous obstacles while walking, because they cannot visually get the situation. Recently electronic white canes which have sensors and provide visually impaired persons with obstacle information, have been developed. This paper proposes the method that can detect dangerous obstacles correctly and can inform visually impaired persons of them effectively. By the experiment results its effectiveness has been clarified.

AB - People with visual impairment always might knock up against dangerous obstacles while walking, because they cannot visually get the situation. Recently electronic white canes which have sensors and provide visually impaired persons with obstacle information, have been developed. This paper proposes the method that can detect dangerous obstacles correctly and can inform visually impaired persons of them effectively. By the experiment results its effectiveness has been clarified.

KW - Electronic white cane

KW - Smartphone

KW - Ultra-sonic sensor

KW - Visual impairment

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84872516364&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84872516364&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/APCC.2012.6388191

DO - 10.1109/APCC.2012.6388191

M3 - Paper

AN - SCOPUS:84872516364

SP - 794

EP - 799

T2 - 18th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications: "Green and Smart Communications for IT Innovation", APCC 2012

Y2 - 15 October 2012 through 17 October 2012

ER -

Walking support by dangerous obstacles notification using an electronic white cane

Abstract

Conference

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this