ShopTalk: Independent Blind Shopping Through Verbal Route Directions and Barcode Scans
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Independent shopping in modern grocery stores that carry thousands of products is a great challenge for people with visual impairments.ShopTalk is a proof-of-concept wearable system designed to assist visually impaired shoppers with finding shelved products in grocery stores.Using synthetic verbal route directions and descriptions of the store layout, ShopTalk leverages the everyday orientation and mobility skills of independent visually impaired travelers to direct them to aisles with target products.Inside aisles, an off-the-shelf barcode scanner is used in conjunction with a software data structure, called a barcode connectivity matrix, to locate target product on shelves.Two experiments were performed at a real world supermarket.A successful earlier single-subject experiment is summarized and a new experiment involving ten visually impaired participants is presented.In both experiments, ShopTalk was successfully used to guide visually impaired shoppers to multiple products located in aisles on shelves.ShopTalk is a feasible system for guiding visually impaired shoppers who are skilled, independent travelers.Its design does not require any hardware instrumentation of the store and leads to low installation and maintenance costs.
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“Several systems for supporting supermarket shopping have been proposed [28], [29], [30], [31].”
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“Nowadays, there are several tools such as RoboCart [2], ShopTalk [3], GroZi [4], etc. that are promising for assisting the visually impaired to perform physical shopping independently.”
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“We hope that in the future visually impaired shoppers will communicate with RobotCart using their cell phones (Nicholson et al., 2009; Nicholson & Kulyukin, 2007).”
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“However, the technologies proposed are mainly aimed at navigation whilst others at locating products [1], [7], [11].”
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“In our previous study [2], the SSH was shown to be appropriate for the communication of verbal routes to blind supermarket shoppers.”
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- Authors
- Nicholson, J., Kulyukin, V., & Coster, D.
- Affiliations
- Utah State University (US)
- Venue
- The Open Rehabilitation Journal
- Publisher
- Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
- Published
- 2009-03-19
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 11-23
- ISSN
- 1874-9437 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2095673535
- Cited by
- 70
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 9.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Open Rehabilitation Journal (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0346880)
- Utah State University
- National Institutes of Health (1r41ey017516-01a1)
- National Eye Institute
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
- Keywords
- wearable assistive technology, barcode scanning, orientation and mobility
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