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Blindness and partial sight are increasing, due to changing demographics and greater incidence of diseases such as diabetes, at vast financial and human cost (WHO, 2013). Organisations for the visually impaired stress the importance of independent living, of which safe and independent travel is an integral part. While existing smartphone facilities such as Apple’s Siri are encouraging, the supporting localisation services are not sufficiently accurate or precise to enable navigation between e.g. a bus stop or taxi rank and the entrance to a public space such as a hospital, supermarket or train station. In this paper, we report plans and progress to date of research addressing ‘the problem of the Last 10 Metres.’ We are developing methods for safely guiding users not just to the general vicinity of a target destination (as done by GPS-based services), but right up to the main entrance of the target destination, by a combination of semantically and visually enriched maps, visual analysis, and language generation.

The Last 10 Metres: Using Visual Analysis and Verbal Communication in Guiding Visually Impaired Smartphone Users to Entrances