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VisionWay Accessibility

NCT07713979 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2026-07-20

No results posted yet for this study

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.

Conditions

  • Persons With Visual Disabilities

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

walking path

Participants will be asked to walk a defined pathway through campus. From the preselected paths, the set and order will be randomized between participants.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Maine

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ohio State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marco Brocanelli, PhD · Ohio State University

  • Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD · Ohio State University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-02-26
Primary Completion
2027-09-01
Completion
2027-09-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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