Navigating airports can be tricky. They’re loud, crowded and not always laid out intuitively. They’re even more challenging for visually impaired people. Chieko Asakawa knows those challenges ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Previously, when Chieko Asakawa navigated her way across the Carnegie Mellon University campus, she used her white cane to identify obstructions with her ears alert to recognizable ...

The NavCog app draws on existing sensors and cognitive technology. Imagine an app that could draw on existing sensors and cognitive technology to help blind people better navigate their surroundings.

Advances in AI and robotics have helped scientists from IBM Research and Carnegie Mellon University develop an app that functions as eyes for the blind. Their goal was to create a technological ...

IBM Research and Carnegie Mellon University are working on a smartphone app that would help blind and visually impaired people navigate their surroundings, by communicating information about the users ...

Navigating airports can be tricky. They're loud, crowded and not always laid out intuitively. They're even more challenging for visually impaired people. Chieko Asakawa knows those challenges ...

This June 9, 2019 photo shows Chieko Asakawa using the airport wayfinding app that she and her team at Carnegie Mellon University to navigate through Pittsburgh International Airside terminal in ...

PITTSBURGH (AP)-- Chieko Asakawa knows firsthand the challenges of navigating airports while blind - so she has helped devise a remedy. Asakawa is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics ...