User Centered Interaction Design for Mobile Applications Focused on Visually Impaired and Blind People

Touching Blind Bodies: A Critical Inquiry into Pedagogical and Cultural Constructions of Visual Disability in the Nineteenth Century

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0014 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Heather Tilley ◽

Jan Eric Olsén

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Blind People ◽

Embodied Experience ◽

Visual Disability ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Educational Challenges ◽

Impaired People ◽

The Senses ◽

Cultural Constructions

Changing ideas on the nature of and relationship between the senses in nineteenth-century Europe constructed blindness as a disability in often complex ways. The loss or absence of sight was disabling in this period, given vision’s celebrated status, and visually impaired people faced particular social and educational challenges as well as cultural stereotyping as poor, pitiable and intellectually impaired. However, the experience of blind people also came to challenge received ideas that the visual was the privileged mode of accessing information about the world, and contributed to an increasingly complex understanding of the tactile sense. In this chapter, we consider how changing theories of the senses helped shape competing narratives of identity for visually impaired people in the nineteenth century, opening up new possibilities for the embodied experience of blind people by impressing their sensory ability, rather than lack thereof. We focus on a theme that held particular social and cultural interest in nineteenth-century accounts of blindness: travel and geography.

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Are You Seeing Him/Her? Mate Choice in Visually Impaired and Blind People

International Journal of Disability Development and Education ◽

10.1080/1034912x.2019.1617412 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 67 (5) ◽

pp. 467-483

Author(s):

Or Fekler ◽

Ya’Arit Bokek-Cohen ◽

Yoram Braw

Keyword(s):

Mate Choice ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Blind People

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Visual Assistant for Blind People using Raspberry Pi

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology ◽

10.32628/cseit2173142 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 671-675

Author(s):

Tejal Adep ◽

Rutuja Nikam ◽

Sayali Wanewe ◽

Dr. Ketaki B. Naik

Keyword(s):

Visually Impaired ◽

Daily Life ◽

Artificial Vision ◽

Raspberry Pi ◽

Blind People ◽

Python Language ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People ◽

Visual Aid ◽

Impaired Person

Blind people face the problem in daily life. They can't even walk without any aid. Many times they rely on others for help. Several technologies for the assistance of visually impaired people have been developed. Among the various technologies being utilized to assist the blind, Computer Vision-based solutions are emerging as one of the most promising options due to their affordability and accessibility. This paper proposes a system for visually impaired people. The proposed system aims to create a wearable visual aid for visually impaired people in which speech commands are accepted by the user. Its functionality addresses the identification of objects and signboards. This will help the visually impaired person to manage day-to-day activities and navigate through his/her surroundings. Raspberry Pi is used to implement artificial vision using python language on the Open CV platform.

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Blind orphanage with blind space approach in Jakarta

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/878/1/012034 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 878 (1) ◽

pp. 012034

Author(s):

C Christover ◽

U Siahaan ◽

R Ismanto ◽

U Ulinata

Keyword(s):

Social Services ◽

Personal Development ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Blind People ◽

Work Skills ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

The Right ◽

Space Approach

Abstract There are still people with disabilities in society who consider them a burden. However, in fact, every child with special needs such as a blind people has the right to have a decent life like any other community. So, we need an orphanage for the blind people with a blind space approach that aims to provide social services to blind children by helping and guiding them towards reasonable personal development and having work skills, so that they can be independent, live properly and have responsibility, both for himself, his family, and society. This research used a qualitative descriptive method by collecting literature studies from national and international journal articles regarding the blind orphanage, collecting data related to the research location and conducting a comparative study of similar buildings in Central Jakarta. This research resulted in a blind orphanage design with a blind space in Jakarta approach that provides disability facilities for visually impaired people, educational facilities, and activity facilities for visually impaired people. It is hoped that the design of the Blind Orphanage can accommodate the activities of the Blind people in Jakarta.

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Modified KNN-LVQ for Stairs Down Detection Based on Digital Image

Lontar Komputer Jurnal Ilmiah Teknologi Informasi ◽

10.24843/lkjiti.2021.v12.i03.p02 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 141

Author(s):

Ahmad Wali Satria Bahari Johan ◽

Sekar Widyasari Putri ◽

Granita Hajar ◽

Ardian Yusuf Wicaksono

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Digital Image Processing ◽

Digital Image ◽

Hybrid Method ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Blind People ◽

Gray Level ◽

Computational Speed ◽

Occurrence Matrix ◽

Computing Speed

Persons with visual impairments need a tool that can detect obstacles around them. The obstacles that exist can endanger their activities. The obstacle that is quite dangerous for the visually impaired is the stairs down. The stairs down can cause accidents for blind people if they are not aware of their existence. Therefore we need a system that can identify the presence of stairs down. This study uses digital image processing technology in recognizing the stairs down. Digital images are used as input objects which will be extracted using the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix method and then classified using the KNN-LVQ hybrid method. The proposed algorithm is tested to determine the accuracy and computational speed obtained. Hybrid KNN-LVQ gets an accuracy of 95%. While the average computing speed obtained is 0.07248 (s).

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Echolocation, as a method supporting spatial orientation and independent movement of people with visual impairment

Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej ◽

10.14746/ikps.2019.25.15 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 353-371

Author(s):

KAMILA MILER-ZDANOWSKA

Keyword(s):

Visual Impairment ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Spatial Orientation ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Blind People ◽

Research Projects ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

The World ◽

Impaired People

Kamila Miler-Zdanowska, Echolocation, as a method supporting spatial orientation and independent movement of people with visual impairment. Interdisciplinary Contexts of Special Pedagogy, no. 25, Poznań 2019. Pp. 353-371. Adam MickiewiczUniversity Press. ISSN 2300-391X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ikps.2019.25.15 People with visual impairment use information from other senses to gain knowledge about the world around them. More and more studies conducted withthe participation of visually impaired people indicate that data obtained through auditory perception is extremely important. In this context, the ability of echolocation used by blind people to move independently is interesting. The aim of the article is to present echolocation as a method supporting spatial orientation of people with visual impairment. The article presents the results of empirical studies of echolocation. It also presents the benefits of using this ability in everyday life and signals research projects related to the methodology of teaching echolocation in Poland. People with visually impaired to get knowledge about the world around them use information from other senses. Many studies conducted with the participation of visually impaired people indicate that data obtained through hearing are extremely important. In this context, the ability of echolocation used by blind people to move independently is interesting. The aim of the article is to present echolocation as a method supporting spatial orientation of people with visual disabilities. The article presents the results of empirical studies on echolocation. It also presents the benefits of using this skill in everyday life and signals research projects on themethodology of teaching echolocation in Poland.

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A Survey on Currency Identification System for Blind and Visually Impaired

International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering ◽

10.30534/ijatcse/2021/541022021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 854-861

Keyword(s):

Visually Impaired ◽

Identification System ◽

Blind People ◽

Comprehensive Overview ◽

Daily Life Activities ◽

Paper Money ◽

Blind And Visually Impaired ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Effective System ◽

Survey Effort

-At present the currency recognition for visually impaired and blind people has becomes a vital topic for the researchers in the different applications. The money exchange is an important part of our daily life activities. But it becomes very difficult for visually impaired and blind people to recognize the currency values in the financial exchanges and they easily betrayed by the other people. Accordingly, there seems an urgent requirement to scheme a framework that is useful in recognizing paper money notes accurately. There is a huge area for currency differential detection and it has evolved over many years. The paper explores currency identification and provides a comprehensive overview of the current literature on techniques for identifying currency notes, encouraging the survey effort to provide an effective system for blind and visually impaired people

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Reading Assistance for Visually Impaired People Using TTL Serial Camera With Voice

Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration - Contemporary Applications of Mobile Computing in Healthcare Settings ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5036-5.ch010 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 170-180

Author(s):

Sruthi M. ◽

Rajasekaran R.

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

The Internet ◽

Blind People ◽

Text Book ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People

Internet of things is where all the things are connected to the internet and communicate with each other. There are many applications of the IoT in various fields such as healthcare, agriculture, industries, and logistics, and even for empowering people with disabilities. There are many previous work for the blind people using IoT in finding the obstacles many navigation applications have been developed. In this chapter, a system is proposed to assist blind people in reading books. This method is based on capturing the text book pages as an image and processing them into text with speech as an output.

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