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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Indoor navigation(also: Indoor wayfinding, Indoor positioning)
Technologies and design strategies that help people orient themselves and find their way within buildings and enclosed spaces such as airports, hospitals, and shopping centres. Unlike outdoor navigation which relies on GPS, indoor navigation often uses Bluetooth beacons, Wi-Fi…
Intersection Detection(also: Junction detection, Corridor intersection recognition)
A computer-vision or sensor-fusion technique used in indoor navigation systems for blind travellers to identify where two or more walkable corridors meet, so the navigation software can update the user's position on a map and issue a turn instruction at the right moment.…

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