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The design and development of tele-assistance services have taken a great consideration in the domain of healthcare lately. With the growing proportion of dependent people (ageing, disabled users) in the society, tele-assistance and tele-monitoring platforms will play a significant role to provide an efficient and economical remote care. It will allow aged or disabled persons to maintain their independence and lessen the burden and cost of care by caregivers. The concept of proposed tele-guidance system is based on the idea that a blind pedestrian can be assisted by spoken instructions from a remote caregiver who receives a live video stream from a camera carried by the visually impaired persons (VIP). The ICT based assistive tools have acceptance issues by visually impaired persons. It is important while designing navigation tools for the VIP to keep in view the factors that restrain them from the adoption of assistive technology. This paper presents a tele-guidance based navigation assistance system for the VIP and blind persons and reports a qualitative study about attitude of VIP towards technological navigation assistance.
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This paper has been written as part of the ASTS (Assisted Living for Senior Citizens) Project funded by Academy of Finland and Japan Science technology Agency (JST).
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The Questionnaire with UTAUT Constructs | ||
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Serial # | Construct | Questions |
1 | BG | Age |
2 | BG | Gender |
3 | BG | Did you acquire visual impairment with birth or did you lost vision? How long ago? |
4 | BG | What is your visual acuity? |
5 | SP | Do you have a support person(s) whom you can contact when you need help? Which hours available? |
6 | PEx, TA | Do you use smartphone or any other mobile device? What brand? Which apps? |
7 | PEx | Do you use white cane? When/why did you start using it? |
8 | PEx, TA | What other assistance tools do you use? |
9 | PEx, RO, IP | In what situations do you use navigation assistance? |
10 | PEx | Have you used navigation assistance tools previously? Why did you quit? |
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11 | HM | Navigation assistance makes going outdoors more pleasant |
12 | HM | I like using navigation assistance |
13 | PV | Navigation assistance tools are reasonably priced |
14 | HA | Using navigation assistance has become a habit to me |
15 | PE | I need navigation assistance every time I go outdoors |
16 | PE | In my opinion navigation assistance is useful when I am outdoors |
17 | PE | Navigation assistance increases the speed of doing chores |
18 | PE | If I use navigation assistance, I will increase my chances to get where I want |
19 | EE | I find navigation assistance tools easy to use |
20 | EE | Learning to use navigation assistance tools is easy for me |
21 | SI | People, who are important to me, think that I should use navigation assistance |
22 | IP | I find it annoying when surrounding people notice I am visually impaired |
23 | SI | The society has been supportive in the use of assistive |
24 | SI | Instructors or medical staff have been supportive in the use of assistive |
25 | FC | My knowledge of using navigation assistance is sufficient |
26 | FC | If I have problem navigation assistance, I know from who I ask help |
27 | ANX | I feel nervous using navigation assistance |
28 | ANX | Navigation assistance is somewhat intimidating |
29 | ATT | Using navigation assistance is a good idea |
30 | ATT | Navigation assistance makes me feel safe |
31 | PV | I am willing to spend money in order to buy new navigation assistance |
32 | PV, RO | I am willing to spend my time in order to learn to use new navigation assistance |
33 | RO | I am willing to change my daily routines, if I receive a new kind of navigation assistance |
34 | RO | I think that people close to me are willing to change their daily routines, if I receive a new kind of navigation assistance |
35 | IP, SPE | It is good that people close to me know my location |
36 | IP, SPE | I would like to select when people close to me know my location |
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Chaudary, B., Paajala, I., Keino, E., Pulli, P. (2017). Tele-guidance Based Navigation System for the Visually Impaired and Blind Persons. In: Giokas, K., Bokor, L., Hopfgartner, F. (eds) eHealth 360°. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 181. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_2
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