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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020

A Review of Technologies and Techniques for Indoor Navigation Systems for the Visually Impaired.

Walter C S S Simões, Guido S Machado, André M A Sales, Mateus M de Lucena, Nasser Jazdi, Vicente F de Lucena

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Walter C S S SimõesPPGI/ICOMP-Programa de Pós-Graduação em Informática, Institute of Computing, UFAM-Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, AM 69080-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-0254-5050
Guido S MachadoPPGEE-Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia, Technology College, UFAM-Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, AM 69080-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-2365-9735
André M A SalesPPGEE-Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia, Technology College, UFAM-Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, AM 69080-900, Brazil.
Mateus M de LucenaSoftware/Hardware Integration Lab, UFSC-Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88040-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-8315-689X
Nasser JazdiInstitute of Industrial Automation and Software Systems, The University of Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany.
Vicente F de LucenaPPGI/ICOMP-Programa de Pós-Graduação em Informática, Institute of Computing, UFAM-Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, AM 69080-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-9864-2850

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Technologies and techniques of location and navigation are advancing, allowing greater precision in locating people in complex and challenging conditions. These advances have attracted growing interest from the scientific community in using indoor positioning systems (IPSs) with a higher degree of precision and fast delivery time, for groups of people such as the visually impaired, to some extent improving their quality of life. Much research brings together various works that deal with the physical and logical approaches of IPSs to give the reader a more general view of the models. These surveys, however, need to be continuously revisited to update the literature on the features described. This paper presents an expansion of the range of technologies and methodologies for assisting the visually impaired in previous works, providing readers and researchers with a more recent version of what was done and the advantages and disadvantages of each approach to guide reviews and discussions about these topics. Finally, we discuss a series of considerations and future trends for the construction of indoor navigation and location systems for the visually impaired.

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Quality of LifeSelf-Help DevicesVision DisordersHumanscomparisons of proposalsdata fusionindoor mappingindoor positioning systemlocation techniques

Identifiers

PMID32679720
PMCPMC7411868

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