Development of Assistive Software on Travel Route Selection for the Visually Impaired

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

A Survey on Hardware and Software Solutions for Multimodal Wearable Assistive Devices Targeting the Visually Impaired

The market penetration of user-centric assistive devices has rapidly increased in the past decades. Growth in computational power, accessibility, and "cognitive" device capabilities have been accompanied by significant reductions in weight, size, and price, as a result of which mobile and wearable equipment are becoming part of our everyday life. In this context, a key focus of development has ...

Designing Assistive Technology to Support Independent Travel for Blind and Visually Impaired People

• Understanding why it might be useful to model the travel process. • Learning about some of the existing empirical research on mobility, wayfinding and spatial understanding. • Learning about the existing models of the travel process and developing an understanding of their advantages and limitations. • Understanding some of the factors that should be considered in models of the travel process...

the impact of morphological awareness on the vocabulary development of the iranian efl students

this study investigated the impact of explicit instruction of morphemic analysis and synthesis on the vocabulary development of the students. the participants were 90 junior high school students divided into two experimental groups and one control group. morphological awareness techniques (analysis/synthesis) and conventional techniques were used to teach vocabulary in the experimental groups a...