Design and Implementation of SEE-Phone in SEES (Smart Environment Explorer Stick)

The mobility is a complex, yet not well understood, human cognitive process; it subtends several different tasks such as walking and orientation. The visually impaired people (VIP) mobility heavily depends on the white stick (or white cane) which however does not provide an efficient support for walking and orientation. Indeed, these two later functions implementation requires the usage of high technology which should be conveniently integrated to the white stick in order to obtain the smart stick. This paper proposes to fill in this gap, and outlines the SEES (Smart Environment Explorer Stick). This paper focuses on SEEphone as a part from whole SEES system. The first prototype of SEE-phone, a part of the SEES system, is presented.