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Shoptalk: toward independent shopping by people with visual impairments

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ShopTalk, a proof-of-concept system designed to assist individuals with visual impairments with finding shelved products in grocery stores, is built on the assumption that simple verbal route directions and layout descriptions can be used to leverage the O&M skills of independent visually impaired travelers to enable them to navigate the store and retrieve shelved products. This paper introduces ShopTalk and summarizes experiments performed in a real-world supermarket.

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Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2008
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DOI:10.1145/1414471
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  1. assistive technology
  2. navigation
  3. shopping
  4. spatial cognition
  5. visually impaired

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