WanderGuide: Indoor Map-less Robotic Guide for Exploration by Blind People

要旨

Blind people have limited opportunities to explore an environment based on their interests. While existing navigation systems could provide them with surrounding information while navigating, they have limited scalability as they require preparing prebuilt maps. Thus, to develop a map-less robot that assists blind people in exploring, we first conducted a study with ten blind participants at a shopping mall and science museum to investigate the requirements of the system, which revealed the need for three levels of detail to describe the surroundings based on users' preferences. Then, we developed WanderGuide, with functionalities that allow users to adjust the level of detail in descriptions and verbally interact with the system to ask questions about the environment or to go to points of interest. The study with five blind participants revealed that WanderGuide could provide blind people with the enjoyable experience of wandering around without a specific destination in their minds.

著者
Masaki Kuribayashi
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Kohei Uehara
Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan
Allan Wang
Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan
Shigeo Morishima
Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
Chieko Asakawa
Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713788

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713788

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Living with Dementia or Visual Impairments

Annex Hall F205
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2025-04-28 20:10:00
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