Courtney et al., 2000 - Google Patents

A study of tile design for tactile guide pathways

Courtney et al., 2000

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1395754841319704154
Author
Courtney A
Chow H
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International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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Tactile guide paths can assist blind people to follow a particular route by using their shod feet to detect and distinguish raised patterns. Two kinds of tile are used to form a tactile guide path, pathway tiles with raised strip patterns are used to indicate the direction of travel …
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