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Blind and low-vision users often face challenges when locating and physically acquiring objects in unfamiliar indoor environments.
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Blind and low-vision users often face challenges when locating and physically acquiring objects in unfamiliar indoor environments. Existing vision-language-model-based assistants can provide semantic descriptions but may introduce latency, hallucinations, and guidance that is poorly aligned with embodied action. We present Touvigation, a hands-free object acquisition system that combines vision-language understanding with persistent local spatial modeling to provide low-latency, body-relative guidance. Drawing on formative interviews with eight blind and low-vision participants, we design a mu...
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Publisher: arxiv.org
ID: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21828v1 · Indexed about 8 hours ago