Abstract: An assembly for navigation and usage guidance in a first navigable space using hybrid tactile and electronic guidance means includes a first informational object installed at a fixed location in a first navigable space, wherein the first informational object includes an obverse, a first touch-discernable feature identifying the first informational object, and a second touch-discernable feature identifying a particular location on the obverse. The assembly includes a first transmitter embedded in the first informational object at the particular location, wherein the first transmitter is configured to transmit, to a receiver, data indicating a location of at least a user feature in the first navigable space.

Abstract: A system for usage guidance using wireless communication includes a receiver configured to wirelessly receive a first signal from a transmitter, and a portable computing device coupled to the receiver and designed and configured to parse the first signal for at least a textual element, extract, from the at least a textual element, a unique transmitter identifier, provide a user identifier, receive a first data record including a first user-specific datum from a first database as a function of the user identifier, receive a second data record including a first item-specific datum from a second database as a function of the unique identifier, and generate a user-specific usage sequence as a function of the first user-specific datum and the first item specific datum. The system includes a user output component coupled to the portable computing device and configured to provide the user-specific usage sequence to the user.

Abstract: A system for usage guidance using wireless communication includes a receiver configured to wirelessly receive a first signal from a transmitter, and a portable computing device coupled to the receiver and designed and configured to parse the first signal for at least a textual element, extract, from the at least a textual element, a unique transmitter identifier, provide a user identifier, receive a first data record including a first user-specific datum from a first database as a function of the user identifier, receive a second data record including a first item-specific datum from a second database as a function of the unique identifier, and generate a user-specific usage sequence as a function of the first user-specific datum and the first item specific datum. The system includes a user output component coupled to the portable computing device and configured to provide the user-specific usage sequence to the user.

Abstract: A device for navigation and usage guidance in a navigable space includes a wireless interrogator including an antenna and a driver circuit that transmits an interrogation signal providing power to a passive transponder at a first location in a navigable space and receives from the transponder a return signal. The device includes a portable computing device coupled to the interrogator and configured to parse the return signal for at least a textual element, extract therefrom a unique identifier of the transmitter, identify, in a first data structure the first location and a second location of a user feature, determine a location of the user, retrieve from a second data structure usage data, and generate a usage sequence for using the user feature. The device includes a user output component coupled to the portable computing device and configured to receive and provide to the user the usage sequence.

Abstract: An assembly for navigation and usage guidance in a first navigable space using hybrid tactile and electronic guidance means includes a first informational object installed at a fixed location in a first navigable space, wherein the first informational object includes an obverse, a first touch-discernable feature identifying the first informational object, and a second touch-discernable feature identifying a particular location on the obverse. The assembly includes a first transmitter embedded in the first informational object at the particular location, wherein the first transmitter is configured to transmit, to a receiver, data indicating a location of at least a user feature in the first navigable space.

Abstract: A device for navigation and usage guidance in a navigable space includes a wireless interrogator including an antenna and a driver circuit that transmits an interrogation signal providing power to a passive transponder at a first location in a navigable space and receives from the transponder a return signal. The device includes a portable computing device coupled to the interrogator and configured to parse the return signal for at least a textual element, extract therefrom a unique identifier of the transmitter, identify, in a first data structure the first location and a second location of a user feature, determine a location of the user, retrieve from a second data structure usage data, and generate a usage sequence for using the user feature. The device includes a user output component coupled to the portable computing device and configured to receive and provide to the user the usage sequence.