An Investigation Into Customisable Automatically Generated Auditory Route Overviews for Pre-navigation

While travelling to new places maps are often used to determine the specifics of the route we want to follow. This helps us prepare for the journey by forming a cognitive model of the route in our minds. However, this process is predominantly visual and thus inaccessible to people who are either blind or visually impaired (BVI) or doing an activity where their eyes are otherwise engaged. This work explores effective methods of generating route overviews, which can create a similar cognitive model for routes, using audio. These overviews can help users plan their journey according to their preference and prepare for it in advance.