A Bibliometric Narrative Review on Modern Navigation Aids for People with Visual Impairment

The innovations in the field of specialized navigation systems have become prominent research topics. As an applied science for people with special needs, aids visually impaired are a key sociotechnique that helps users to independently navigate and access needed resources indoors outdoors. This paper adopts informetric analysis method assess current explore trends based on bibliographic records retrieved from Web Science Core Collection (WoSCC). A total 528 relevant publications 2010 2020 were analyzed. work answers following questions: What publication characteristics most influential sources? Who active authors? their interests primary contributions society? featured studies field? popular topics trends, described by keywords? Additionally, we closely investigate renowned works use different multisensor fusion methods, which believed be bases upcoming research. findings this aim help researchers quickly move into field, as they can easily grasp frontiers trend R&D area. Moreover, suggest embrace smartphone-based agile development, well pay more attention phone-based frameworks such ARCore or ARKit, achieve fast prototyping proposed systems. study also provides references associated fellows highlighting critical junctures modern assistive travel visual impairments.