Background: Blindness is associated with difficulty in balance control and the quality of life; accordingly, this population experiences more instability than healthy individuals. Thus, the present study aimed to evaluate the effects of vestibular exercises on postural control, the risk of falling, and the quality of life in visually-impaired individuals. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental...

In Zimbabwe there are no comprehensive programmes to assist visually impaired school leavers to find employment. The problems faced by visually impaired people in getting employment were the thrust of this study. The study was carried out in Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West, Masvingo and Harare provinces. Using questionnaires, data were collected from 20 unemployed and 20 employed visually im...

In India, almost 18 million visually impaired people have difficulties in managing their day-to-day activities. Hence, there is a need to develop an application that can assist them every time and give vocal instructions both English Hindi. this paper, we introduced robust lightweight Android facilitates individuals by providing variety of essential features such as object distance detection, I...

For the development of a transfer concept camera-based object detections from Advanced Driver Assistance Systems to assistance visually impaired, we define relevant traffic scenarios and vision use cases by means problem-centered interviews with four experts ten members target group. We identify six scenarios: general orientation, navigating an address, crossing road, obstacle avoidance, boardi...