Exploring the use of a drone to guide blind runners

Al Zayer Majed; Feil Seifer Dave; Sam Tregillus; Jiwan Bhandari; Eelke Folmer

doi:10.1145/2982142.2982204

Exploring the use of a drone to guide blind runners

Al Zayer Majed
, Feil Seifer Dave
, Sam Tregillus
, Jiwan Bhandari
, Eelke Folmer

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Abstract

People with visual impairments have a hard time getting consistent physical exercise, as they can not do some exercises, such as running outside, without a sighted guide. People with visual impairments have been shown to have higher spatial localization skills than sighted people, which lead us to believe that they could follow a drone on a running-Track environment. This paper presents a feasibility study where we investigate the ability to localize and follow a low-cost flying drone in people with visual impairments. A Wizard of Oz style study was conducted with 2 blind participants. Our results indicate that blind individuals can accurately localize the drone and follow it. Qualitative results also indicate that the participants were comfortable with following the drone and had high efficacy when it came to following and localizing the drone. The study supports future development of a fully functioning prototype.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	263-264
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450341240
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2982142.2982204
State	Published - 23 Oct 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2016 - Reno, United States Duration: 24 Oct 2016 → 26 Oct 2016

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Name	ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Conference

Conference	18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Reno
Period	24/10/16 → 26/10/16

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Keywords

Drones
Exercise
Health disparities
Obesity
Running

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction
Hardware and Architecture
Software

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Majed, A. Z., Dave, F. S., Tregillus, S., Bhandari, J., & Folmer, E. (2016). Exploring the use of a drone to guide blind runners. In ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 263-264). (ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2982142.2982204

Majed, Al Zayer ; Dave, Feil Seifer ; Tregillus, Sam et al. / Exploring the use of a drone to guide blind runners. ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. pp. 263-264 (ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility).

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Majed, AZ, Dave, FS, Tregillus, S, Bhandari, J & Folmer, E 2016, Exploring the use of a drone to guide blind runners. in ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 263-264, 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2016, Reno, United States, 24/10/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2982142.2982204

Exploring the use of a drone to guide blind runners. / Majed, Al Zayer; Dave, Feil Seifer; Tregillus, Sam et al.
ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. p. 263-264 (ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility).

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Exploring the use of a drone to guide blind runners

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