Purpose Non-urgent face-to-face outpatient ophthalmology appointments were suspended in the United Kingdom March 2020, due to COVID-19 outbreak. In common with other centres, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (London) offered modified telephone consultations new and follow-up patients low vision clinic. Here we assess success of this service. Methods Data collected for 500 consecutiv...

AIMS To determine if there was a significant difference between user-centred and clinical outcomes in people with low vision who attended a new community-based low vision service (CLVS) or the hospital-based low vision service (HBLV). METHODS A prospective controlled before and after study. Participants were recruited from the CLVS (n=343; 96 male, 247 female; median age 82 years) and from th...

The vast majority of people with low vision retain some functional vision to perform everyday tasks. To study the effectiveness and efficiency of the visual tasks performed by people with low vision, knowing the movement patterns of their preferred retinal locus (PRL) used for fixation, saccade, and pursuit is critical. The scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) has been used to acquire retinal im...

This paper presents a speech operated smart-home control system with a focus on users with special needs – elderly people, people suffering from blindness or low vision and people with mobility impairments. The proposed system simplifies the use of various home appliances by providing a unified speech-controlled interface and thus improves the quality of their everyday life. The paper presents ...