Assisting and Guiding Visually Impaired in Indoor Environments

Assisting people who are visually impaired

Demo: Assisting Visually Impaired People Navigate Indoors

Research in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Computer Vision has recently made great strides in improving indoor localization. Publicly available technology now allows for indoor localization with very small margins of error. In this demo, we show a system that uses state-of the-art technology to assist visually impaired people navigate indoors. Our system takes advantage of spatial repres...

Guiding visually impaired people in the exhibition

We have implemented a location-aware tour-guide based on RFID localization. The guide is specifically aimed at supporting blind users. We tested it in the context of EuroFlora 2006, one of the most important exhibitions of Europe. In this paper we briefly describe the development process and discuss some preliminary results from usability tests. The experimentation involved over 100 blind peopl...

Assisting people who are visually impaired

Wireless Guide for Assisting Blind and Visually Impaired People

The world is constantly advancing with technological progress in many areas; however advancements to assist the lives of the blind and visually impaired have been limited. This project presents the development of a navigation system for assisting the blind and visually impaired. The project involves multiple hardware and software components. For simplicity, these components are divided into two...