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

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 18, 2026 · UTC

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 mu

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