Analysis of Navigation Assistants for Blind and Visually Impaired People: A Systematic Review

<p dir="ltr">Over the last few decades, the development in the field of navigation and routing devices has become a hindering task for the researchers to develop smart and intelligent guiding mechanism at indoor and outdoor locations for blind and visually impaired people (BVIPs). Th...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Sulaiman Khan (12585349) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Shah Nazir (14779162) (author), Habib Ullah Khan (12024579) (author)
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Data management and data science
Human-centred computing
Software engineering
Navigation
Medical services
Robot sensing systems
Global Positioning System
Systematics
Legged locomotion
Visualization
Blind and visually impaired people
Healthcare
Smart devices
Systematic literature review
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description <p dir="ltr">Over the last few decades, the development in the field of navigation and routing devices has become a hindering task for the researchers to develop smart and intelligent guiding mechanism at indoor and outdoor locations for blind and visually impaired people (BVIPs). The existing research need to be analysed from a historical perception including early research on the first electronic travel aids to the use of modern artificial vision models for the navigation of BVIPs. Diverse approaches such as: e-cane or guide dog, infrared-based cane, laser based walker and many others are proposed for the navigation of BVIPs. But most of these techniques have limitations such as: infrared and ultrasonic based assistance has short range capacities for object detection. While laser based assistance can harm other people if it directly hit them on their eyes or any other part of the body. These trade-offs are critical to bring this technology in practice.To systematically assess, analyze, and identify the primary studies in this specialized field and provide an overview of the trends and empirical evidence in the proposed field. This systematic research work is performed by defining a set of relevant keywords, formulating four research questions, defining selection criteria for the articles, and synthesizing the empirical evidence in this area. Our pool of studies include 191 most relevant articles to the proposed field reported between 2011 and 2020 (a portion of 2020 is included). This systematic mapping will help the researchers, engineers, and practitioners to make more authentic decisions for finding gaps in the available navigation assistants and suggest a new and enhanced smart assistant application accordingly to ensure safety and accurate guidance of the BVIPs. This research work have several implications in particular the impact of reducing fatalities and major injuries of BVIPs.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IEEE Access<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3052415" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3052415</a></p>
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spelling Analysis of Navigation Assistants for Blind and Visually Impaired People: A Systematic ReviewSulaiman Khan (12585349)Shah Nazir (14779162)Habib Ullah Khan (12024579)Information and computing sciencesData management and data scienceHuman-centred computingSoftware engineeringNavigationMedical servicesRobot sensing systemsGlobal Positioning SystemSystematicsLegged locomotionVisualizationBlind and visually impaired peopleHealthcareSmart devicesSystematic literature review<p dir="ltr">Over the last few decades, the development in the field of navigation and routing devices has become a hindering task for the researchers to develop smart and intelligent guiding mechanism at indoor and outdoor locations for blind and visually impaired people (BVIPs). The existing research need to be analysed from a historical perception including early research on the first electronic travel aids to the use of modern artificial vision models for the navigation of BVIPs. Diverse approaches such as: e-cane or guide dog, infrared-based cane, laser based walker and many others are proposed for the navigation of BVIPs. But most of these techniques have limitations such as: infrared and ultrasonic based assistance has short range capacities for object detection. While laser based assistance can harm other people if it directly hit them on their eyes or any other part of the body. These trade-offs are critical to bring this technology in practice.To systematically assess, analyze, and identify the primary studies in this specialized field and provide an overview of the trends and empirical evidence in the proposed field. This systematic research work is performed by defining a set of relevant keywords, formulating four research questions, defining selection criteria for the articles, and synthesizing the empirical evidence in this area. Our pool of studies include 191 most relevant articles to the proposed field reported between 2011 and 2020 (a portion of 2020 is included). This systematic mapping will help the researchers, engineers, and practitioners to make more authentic decisions for finding gaps in the available navigation assistants and suggest a new and enhanced smart assistant application accordingly to ensure safety and accurate guidance of the BVIPs. This research work have several implications in particular the impact of reducing fatalities and major injuries of BVIPs.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IEEE Access<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3052415" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3052415</a></p>2021-01-18T00:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.1109/access.2021.3052415https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Analysis_of_Navigation_Assistants_for_Blind_and_Visually_Impaired_People_A_Systematic_Review/24049338CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/240493382021-01-18T00:00:00Z
spellingShingle Analysis of Navigation Assistants for Blind and Visually Impaired People: A Systematic Review
Sulaiman Khan (12585349)
Information and computing sciences
Data management and data science
Human-centred computing
Software engineering
Navigation
Medical services
Robot sensing systems
Global Positioning System
Systematics
Legged locomotion
Visualization
Blind and visually impaired people
Healthcare
Smart devices
Systematic literature review
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title_full Analysis of Navigation Assistants for Blind and Visually Impaired People: A Systematic Review
title_fullStr Analysis of Navigation Assistants for Blind and Visually Impaired People: A Systematic Review
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of Navigation Assistants for Blind and Visually Impaired People: A Systematic Review
title_short Analysis of Navigation Assistants for Blind and Visually Impaired People: A Systematic Review
title_sort Analysis of Navigation Assistants for Blind and Visually Impaired People: A Systematic Review
topic Information and computing sciences
Data management and data science
Human-centred computing
Software engineering
Navigation
Medical services
Robot sensing systems
Global Positioning System
Systematics
Legged locomotion
Visualization
Blind and visually impaired people
Healthcare
Smart devices
Systematic literature review