Accessible Environmental Information Application for Individuals with Visual Impairments.

This project is developing a scalable Accessible Environmental Information Application (AEI) with seamless outdoor to indoor navigation and a unified beacon database for people with visual disabilities. This application provides indoor orientation information to assist in navigating indoor public spaces including malls, airports, conference venues, and baseball stadiums. This project is expanding existing outdoor navigation systems with this AEI that provides orientation and location information indoors where GPS is unavailable. The objectives of this project are to: (1) evaluate the leading indoor navigation techniques to assess synergistic technological capabilities; (2) continue development of the AEI application to incorporate Phase I feedback and refine interface; (3) incorporate additional third party beacon databases; (4) create an open source beacon sharing standard and database; (5) analyze the success of the developed application in real world situations; and (6) complete project summaries and reporting.