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LocalEyes: accessible GPS and points of interest

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Most current GPS devices are inaccessible for blind and low-vision users and the few that are tend to be expensive and highly specialized [2]. LocalEyes uses less expensive, multi-purpose smart phone technology and freely available data sources to provide an accessible GPS application that will increase a user's independence and ability to explore new places alone.

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Kane, S. K., Jayant, C., Wobbrock, J. O., and Ladner, R. E. 2009. Freedom to roam: a study of mobile device adoption and accessibility for people with visual and motor disabilities. In Proceedings of the 11th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, October 25 - 28, 2009). Assets '09. ACM, New York, NY, 115--122. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1639642.1639663
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National Federation of the Blind. 2010. NFB - Technology Resource List. http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Technology_Resource_List1.asp?SnID=1209024515#GPSSys
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Nicolau, H., Jorge, J., and Guerreiro, T. 2009. Blobby: how to guide a blind person. In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 3601--3606. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520541

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ASSETS '10: Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2010
346 pages
ISBN:9781605588810
DOI:10.1145/1878803

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  1. accessible
  2. assistive
  3. gps
  4. maps
  5. points of interest

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