A personalized notification method for a mobility as a service (MaaS) vehicle includes receiving conditional personalized notification features from a passenger of the MaaS vehicle. The method also includes monitoring current driving environment of the MaaS vehicle to determine whether a condition of the conditional personalized notification features is satisfied. The method further includes notifying the passenger when the condition is satisfied via at least one localized output device in a compartment of the MaaS vehicle.

There is provided a technique for improving the accuracy of estimation of a position of a nearby vehicle. A nearby vehicle position estimation system is formed that includes a relative position information obtaining part that obtains relative direction of a nearby vehicle with respect to a host vehicle, the nearby vehicle being present around the host vehicle; a map information obtaining part that obtains map information around a current position of the host vehicle; and a nearby vehicle position estimating part that obtains, based on the map information, a nearby road that overlaps a straight line extending in the relative direction from the host vehicle, and estimates that the nearby vehicle is present on the nearby road.

A navigation system for aiding a human navigating, the navigation system includes a belt having a belt length and opposite belt ends, and includes an elongated compartment; a belt coupling arranged to the belt for coupling the belt ends; a compass sensor arranged to the belt and for sensing the compass direction based on the earth's magnetic field; a tactile unit arranged for tactile communicating a direction to the human; additional tactile actuators arranged to the belt and for communicating a direction to the human. The additional tactile actuators are distributed over the length of the belt. An elongated mesh is provided for arranging the elongated mesh inside the elongated compartment, the additional tactile actuators being arranged to the mesh. A processing unit is configured for controlling the navigation system.

Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth techniques for directional guidance for a space. A computer-implemented method for guiding a user through a space includes determining a current location of the user and a destination location, where the current location and the destination location are locations within the space; determining a path from the current location to the destination location; determining at least one guidance cue associated with the path; and causing at least one guidance output device along the path to output the at least one guidance cue, wherein the at least one guidance output device is installed in the space.

A method and system that provides navigational related audio or haptic feedback to a user traversing a route by mapping an initial route for a user to traverse, the initial route having paths and intersections; determining a current location of the user; inputting a route characteristic change of the initial route; determining possible paths associated with an intersection for the user to traverse when the current location of the user is within the predetermined distance of the intersection; ranking the determined possible paths based upon the initial route and the inputted route characteristic change; determining the head direction of the user when the current location of the user is within the predetermined distance of an intersection; determining which of the possible paths corresponds to the calculated head direction of the user; and providing an audio/haptic cue to the user based upon the ranking of the determined possible path corresponding to the determined head direction of the user.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for navigation. A method performed by a communication device comprises obtaining a current position of an object. The method further comprises determining whether the object is dangerous to a user of a terminal device based on the current position of the object. The method further comprises, in response to a positive determination, sending a message for guiding the user to a first wearable device of the user and/or a message for informing a maintainer about the dangerous object.

An information transmission device applied to an open moving machine driven by a driver who is exposed to an outside of the moving machine includes: a vibrator configured to vibrate a component of the moving machine, the driver in a driving posture being in contact with the component; and a controller communicably connected to an information providing device and configured to control the vibrator and a voice output device configured to output voice to the driver, the information providing device being configured to provide utterance information to the driver as information to be transmitted to the driver. The controller makes the vibrator operate when making the voice output device output the utterance information to the driver by the voice.

Various implementations include approaches for training a surface detection classifier and detecting characteristics of a surface, along with related micromobility vehicles. Certain implementations include a method including: comparing: i) detected movement of a micromobility (MM) vehicle or a device located with a user at the MM vehicle while operating the MM vehicle, with ii) a surface detection classifier for the MM vehicle; and in response to detecting that the MM vehicle is traveling on a restricted surface type for a threshold period, performing at least one of: a) notifying an operator of the MM vehicle about the travel on the restricted surface type, b) outputting a warning at an interface connected with the MM vehicle or the device, c) limiting a speed of the MM vehicle, or d) disabling operation of the MM vehicle.

An intelligent shoe comprises one or more sensorial devices configured to generate sensorial signals to instruct a wearer to walk along a pedestrian path. The intelligent shoe is configured to cause a current location of the wearer to be determined and to obtain a pedestrian path between the current location and the destination location. The intelligent shoe then causes the one or more sensorial devices to generate sensorial signals, instructing the wearer to move along the pedestrian path.

A processor may receive first sensor data associated with detected movement of a user in an environment. The processor may determine, using an AI model, based on the first sensor data, that the movement of the user is associated with a first object. The processor may retrieve sensory data associated with the first object from a repository. In some embodiments, the sensory data may include at least one of auditory, olfactory, and haptic data associated with historical user interactions with the first object. The processor may provide a first sensory signal to the user to indicate a location of the first object relative to a first location of the user.