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Touvigation: Embodied Adaptive Object Acquisition for Blind and Low-Vision Users in Unfamiliar Indoor Environments — arXiv:2609.21828

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@misc{dc534e49a00a31,
  title = {Touvigation: Embodied Adaptive Object Acquisition for Blind and Low-Vision Users in Unfamiliar Indoor Environments — arXiv:2609.21828},
  howpublished = {arXiv (en)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21828},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_534e49a00a31; sha256 2b514bb11640efdd51ef4959898ca5f801aaa360c5d5ab01688b73f2d1597301},
  year = {2026}
}

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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 multi-stage guidance framework that adapts spatial references as users transition from orienting, to walking, to reaching and tactile verification. We evaluated Touvigation with 12 blind and low-vision participants against a multimodal large-language-model assistant and unassisted search. Touvigation achieved 100% task success, compared with 58% for the multimodal assistant and 85% for unassisted search, while reducing completion time and cognitive workload. Our findings demonstrate how persistent spatial grounding and adaptive embodied guidance can improve object acquisition for blind and low-vision users.

Tema degli esploratori: agenti e intelligenza artificiale (retro-catalogo arXiv: annunci del 2026-09-21 in cs.AI).
Categorie arXiv: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) ; Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI).
Pagina del lavoro: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21828 — autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
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