Development and Evaluation of Shoe-type Walking Assistive Device for Visually Impaired Person

Shoe Based Assistive Device for Monoplegia Patients

Paralysis is a disease where muscles lose its functionality. Few patients are affected with partial paralysis, where a single limb functions while the other doesn’t function. The developed lower leg assistive device serves as a comfortable, low cost, and compatible and can be used in all physiotherapy and rehabilitation purposes. This particular kind of assistive device can also be effective fo...

Mobile assistive technologies for the visually impaired.

There are around 285 million visually impaired people worldwide, and around 370,000 people are registered as blind or partially sighted in the UK. Ongoing advances in information technology (IT) are increasing the scope for IT-based mobile assistive technologies to facilitate the independence, safety, and improved quality of life of the visually impaired. Research is being directed at making mo...

Assistive Computer Interface for Visually Impaired Persons

Multi-Section Sensing and Vibrotactile Perception for Walking Guide of Visually Impaired Person

Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs) improve the mobility of visually-impaired persons, but it is not easy to develop an ETA satisfying all the factors needed for reliable object detection, effective notification, and actual usability. In this study, the authors developed an easy-to-use ETA having the function of reliable object detection and its successful feedback to the user by tactile stimulation....

Survey On Computer Vision Based Assistive Device For The Blind And Visually Impaired

The blind and visually impaired people needs assistance in their day-to-day life, for navigation, detecting objects, text recognition etc., Computer vision based assistive device for the blind is promising and efficient technology but still, the area is still a developing one. Various assistive device exist today to assist the blind most of which are still in prototypical stages. Purpose of thi...