title: Assessment of Indoor Route-finding Technology for People with Visual Impairment.
abstract: This study investigated navigation with route instructions generated by digital-map software and synthetic speech. Participants, either visually impaired or sighted wearing blind folds, successfully located rooms in an unfamiliar building. Users with visual impairment demonstrated better route-finding performance when the technology provided distance information in number of steps rather than walking time or number of feet.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin-Cities.
authors.forename: Amy A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Kalia
authors.forename: Gordon E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Legge
authors.forename: Rudrava
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: Advait
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ogale