An Indoor Navigation and Way-finding Mechanism for the Visually Impaired People Using RFID / RFID於輔助視障者室內路徑導引之應用

碩士 / 國立高雄師範大學 / 資訊教育研究所 / 96 / Although adaptive devices facilitate to support visually impaired people abound, such as guiding bricks, guiding cane and barrier-free access for the disabled, the visual impaired people live inconveniently in a world full of visual cues. Particularly when a visually impaired visits an unfamiliar environment, it’s hard for him to perform actions with no one accompanying them. They might encounter problems which common people never face. In this case, no suitable assistive technology devices could help them. In recent years, with the gradually maturing RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technologies, the applications of RFID have been extended to many fields. RFID technology is also very suitable for navigation and way-finding. In this study, we make use of the RFID technologies and mobile computing devices to design a system which can support the visually impaired people move easily in an indoor environment. This system provides them with more exact information about the position of objects, and navigates them to the correct and safe way to get the objects they want. We make use of the allocation of the RFID tag and the collocation of the indoor reference material to design a RFID navigation and way-finding system to help the visually impaired people in finding and accessing objects more efficiently and rapidly with mobile computing devices such as PDA. And we hope that the system could solve the aforementioned problems for the visual impaired, and make their life more comfortable and improve the quality of their lives.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/096NKNU5395032
Date January 2008
CreatorsYan-Zu Tsai, 蔡炎儒
ContributorsDow-Ming Yeh, Pei-Chen Sun, 葉道明, 孫培真
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format66

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