Clock Position

A method of conveying direction to a person who is blind by mapping the 12-hour clock face onto the user's immediate surroundings, where 12 o'clock is directly ahead, 3 o'clock is to the right, 6 o'clock is behind, and 9 o'clock is to the left. Clock-position directions (e.g., 'your glass is at 3 o'clock' or 'walk to the 2 o'clock, 2 metres ahead') are widely used in O&M instruction, dining etiquette for blind diners, and assistive smartphone navigation apps. The convention is concise and language-agnostic, and research has shown it can convey direction clearly in guidance contexts where spatialised audio or full turn-by-turn instructions would be too slow or cognitively expensive.