Clinical Trial

VisionWay Accessibility

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Summary
The challenge of outdoor wayfinding, critical for People with Visual Impairments (PVI), consists in helping users safely walk to a pre-determined nearby destination. The main focus of existing solutions from research and industry is to leverage the user's smartphone to receive safe moving directions either from a remote operator or smart app. However, multiple paths may exist to connect users with their destination, each one with unique characteristics in terms of accessibility and safety. Unfortunately, little to no attention has been paid in helping PVI decide, before even starting to walk, which path to take based on their accessibility. Thus, a barrier identified is that the followed path may not be accessible because sidewalk features such as potholes, uncontrolled crossing, interrupted sidewalks, and objects are not known in advance. The investigators' goal is to develop a mobile live, local, outside map framework called VisionWay, customized for PVI-user as a wayfinding tool to analyze, before starting to walk, the accessibility of candidate paths and choose one to the destination.
Trial Details
NCT Number NCT07713979
Lead Sponsor Ohio State University
Collaborators: University of Maine
Conditions Persons With Visual Disabilities
Enrollment 100 participants
Start Date 2026-02-26
Primary Completion 2027-09-01 (estimated)
Study Completion 2027-09-01 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov 2026-07-20