Indoor Navigation Feature Survey

This survey has eight questions about features for a wearable indoor navigation system being developed by Echobatix. It should take you 4 to 13 minutes to complete the survey depending on the length of comments you write, because that was the range of time needed by blind members of our team.

Echobatix will be offering exciting features beyond those mentioned in this survey, but we need your feedback to know what features to deliver first, and in what order. If you provide your email address at the end, we will send you the survey results within one week of the time you submit your responses.

The questions at the beginning of the survey ask you to choose the top two features from a list of five features. The fifth option allows you to fill in the blank with up to 100 characters, which is about twenty words at most.

Please pick the one or two features you'd be most eager to use daily.

Let's begin the survey of key features!

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* 1. Pick two features that would help you most with everyday navigation.

Detect elevators and stairs

Guide me around obstacles in my way

Find doors

Guide me back to a previous landmark and reorient me

Provide some other feature that would help me daily with navigation (fill in the blank)

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* 2. Pick two features that would best complement your orientation and mobility skills.

Describe where people and objects are around me

Navigate straight across a wide open space such as an atrium or a large room

Support pre-trip planning with rehearsal of landmarks and directions

Suggest primary and secondary landmarks for me

Provide some other feature that would complement my orientation and mobility skills (fill in the blank)

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* 3. Pick two features that would improve accessibility for you most regularly.

Determine which store is which in a shopping mall

Help me with an appliance touchscreen: microwave, toaster, oven, treadmill

Compare the price of a product in my hand with prices online

Find a friend in a busy environment

Provide some other feature that would make the world more accessible for me (fill in the blank):

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* 4. Pick two features that would improve your safety the most.

Detect changes in ground level such as ramps, dropoffs, and stairs

Help me maintain social distancing from other people

Warn me of head-level hazards

Determine at a distance if a door is open, half open, or closed

Provide some other feature that would improve my safety (fill in the blank)

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* 5. What is your level of vision?

Totally Blind

Legally blind, with some usable vision

Low vision

Sighted and not visually impaired

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* 6. Which ONE statement best describes what you'd want from a wearable system?

I want to navigate unfamiliar spaces more easily, without help from a sighted person.

I want to travel more efficiently by complementing my existing orientation and mobility skills.

I want to experience fewer injuries.

I want the world to be more accessible to me.

To understand your choice better, please fill in the textbox below to explain why navigation, extension of your O&M skills, injury avoidance, or improved accessibility is most important to you. We will use your previous answers and your comment here to determine the order in which features are delivered.

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* 7. Which feature do you wish we had mentioned?

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* 8. Would you like to take part in our next short survey and learn more about the wearable navigation system?

Definitely Yes

Probably Yes

Probably No

Definitely No

If Yes, please provide your email address