Description
Situations present themselves in which someone needs to navigate inside of a building, for example, to the exit or to retrieve and object. Sometimes, vision is not a reliable sense of spatial awareness, maybe because of a smoky environment, a dark environment, distractions, etc. I propose a wearable haptic device, a belt or vest, that provides haptic feedback to help people navigate inside of a building that does not rely on the user's vision. The first proposed device has an obstacle avoidance component and a navigation component. This paper discussed the challenges of designing and implementing this kind of technology in the context of indoor navigation, where GPS signal is poor. Analyzing accelerometer data for the purpose of indoor navigation and then using haptic cues from a wearable haptic device for the navigation were explored in this project, and the device is promising.
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Title
- Haptic-Based Indoor Navigation for Emergency Responders
Contributors
- Berk, Emily Marie (Author)
- Atkinson, Robert (Thesis director)
- Chavez-Echeagaray, Maria Elena (Committee member)
- Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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2016-05
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