The ViibraCane - A White Cane for Tactile Navigation Guidance
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During previous CSUN conferences we presented the navigation system TANIA (Tactile-Acoustical Navigation and Information Assistant). The system’s main component is an Ultra Mobile PC and it achieves positioning of the user via an accurate step-tracking method, GPS, and RFID tags, and works both indoors and outdoors. Besides providing information about the surrounding area by an integrated tactile-acoustical map, the system has an inbuilt assistant to guide the user to a chosen destination. The navigation guidance was formerly achieved by text output that was displayed on a Braille display or read out by a text-to-speech engine.
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