Assistive Mobile Application for Visually Impaired People

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...

Smart Cane: Assistive Cane for Visually-impaired People

This paper reports on a study that helps visually-impaired people to walk more confidently. The study hypothesizes that a smart cane that alerts visually-impaired people over obstacles in front could help them in walking with less accident. The aim of the paper is to address the development work of a cane that could communicate with the users through voice alert and vibration, which is named Sm...

Assistive Computer Interface for Visually Impaired Persons

An Intelligent Mobile News Reader for the Visually Impaired People

In order to access the Web news, visually impaired people have to resort to some types of screen readers to convert the textual information into audio streams. Such special users have to listen to the information line by line. It is particularly inefficient with a mobile device to search and navigate interested information in Web news-sphere in which the content structure is complicated and the...

A pervasive assistive environment for visually impaired people using wireless sensor network infrastructure

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been identified as a promising technology for supporting assistive environments. This article introduces PROTECT, a system that employs autonomous software objects referred to as mobile agents (MAs) able of locating and informing visually impaired persons for potential risks. PROTECT utilizes a 3-tier architecture where the first tier comprises a base statio...