scholarly journals Design and User Satisfaction of Interactive Maps for Visually Impaired People

2012 ◽  
pp. 544-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anke Brock ◽  
Philippe Truillet ◽  
Bernard Oriola ◽  
Delphine Picard ◽  
Christophe Jouffrais
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Interactive Maps ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

scholarly journals Comparing Interaction Techniques to Help Blind People Explore Maps on Small Tactile Devices

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Simonnet ◽  
Anke M. Brock ◽  
Antonio Serpa ◽  
Bernard Oriola ◽  
Christophe Jouffrais
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Interaction Techniques ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Visual Interaction ◽  
Spatial Configurations ◽  
Tactile Cues ◽  
Efficient Exploration

Exploring geographic maps on touchscreens is a difficult task in the absence of vision as those devices miss tactile cues. Prior research has therefore introduced non-visual interaction techniques designed to allow visually impaired people to explore spatial configurations on tactile devices. In this paper, we present a study in which six blind and six blindfolded sighted participants evaluated three of those interaction techniques compared to a screen reader condition. We observed that techniques providing guidance result in a higher user satisfaction and more efficient exploration. Adding a grid-like structure improved the estimation of distances. None of the interaction techniques improved the reconstruction of the spatial configurations. The results of this study allow improving the design of non-visual interaction techniques that support a better exploration and memorization of maps in the absence of vision.

Grocery shopping assistant for visually impaired

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Ahmad Yusri Dak ◽  
Saadiah Yahya ◽  
Nik Mariza Nik Abdull Malik
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Speech Technology ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Vegetables And Fruits

Providing a great shopping experience to shoppers is the most competitive strategy taken by every grocery owners. They are striving to satisfy the growing demands of todays savvy shoppers. Unfortunately, most ofthe grocery owner is not actively pursuing a solution to create an independent shopping environment to their customers who are blind and visually impaired people. The information printed at the grocery items make shopping independently impossible for the blind and very difficult for visually impaired people. This sensory capability limits their shopping activities in identifying items at the grocery store. There are many kinds of grocery items that can be identified by the means of touch or smell such as vegetables and fruits, but it is a challenging effort to differentiate packaged items. Therefore, blind shoppers must rely on assistance from sighted individual or grocery store employee to help them in getting the exact items which may be burdening and a waste oftheir time. This situation will restrict the independence movement ofthe blind shoppers. The Grocery Shopping Assistant was created to assist the blind in identifying grocery items during shopping using Radio-frequency Identification (RFlD) and text to speech technology. The blind only need to touch the RFID tag attached at the grocery item to the RFID scanner. The necessary product information regarding the item will be extracted from the database based on the primary key. This text-based information will be converted into a voice based and push to the user s hand phone via Bluetooth technology. The implementation of this system allows blind people to shop as efficiently and safely as anyone else without having to rely on anyone. This study also investigates user satisfaction of the system. The result exhibits that the users are very impressive with the shopping independence that this system can offer them.

Application of IoT Based Stick for Visually Impaired People in CVIS System

CICTP 2020 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Muhammad ◽  
Qizhou Hu ◽  
Muhammad Tayyab ◽  
Yikai Wu ◽  
Muhammad Ahtsham
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

Widening the horizons: Information space of the library for the blind as the resource to improve quality of life of visually impaired people

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Novikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Special Library

The special library acts as the cultural and educational center for visually impaired people, and as the center for continuing education. The multifunctional performance of the library is substantiated. The joint projects accomplished in cooperation with theatres and museums and aimed at integrating the visually impaired people into the society are described. Advanced training projects for the library professionals accomplished in 2018 are discussed.

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

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.

Low cost audio based intelligent guidance system for visually impaired people

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (03) ◽  
pp. 515-520
Author(s):  
Vattumilli Komal Venugopal ◽  
Alampally Naveen ◽  
Rajkumar R ◽  
Govinda K ◽  
Jolly Masih
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Guidance System ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

MAGIC-I as Assistance for the Visually Impaired People

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kavita Pandey ◽  
Dhiraj Pandey ◽  
Vatsalya Yadav ◽  
Shriya Vikhram
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Daily Life Activities ◽  
Best Friends ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
The World ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Impaired User

Background: According to the WHO report, around 4.07% of the world's population is visually impaired. About 90% of the visually impaired users live in the lower economic strata. In the fast moving technology, most of the invention misses the need of these people. Mainly the technologies were designed for mainstream people; visually impaired people always find an inability to access it. This inability arises primarily for reasons such as cost, for example, Perkins Brailler costs 80-248 dollars for the simple purpose of Braille input. Another major reason is the hassle of carrying the big equipment. Objective: Keeping all this in mind and making technology as their best friends, MAGIC-1 has been designed. The goal is to provide a solution in terms of an application, which helps the visually impaired user in their daily life activities. Method: The proposed solution assists visually impaired users through smart phone technology. If visually impaired users ever wished to have a touched guide into a smart phone, MAGIC-1 has the solution that consolidates all the important features in their daily activities. Results: The performance of the solution as a whole and its individual features in terms of usability, utility and other metrics, etc. has been tested with sample visually impaired users. Moreover, their performances in term of Errors per Word and Words per Minute have been observed. Conclusion: MAGIC-I, the proposed solution works as an assistant of visually impaired users to overcome their daily struggles and stay more connected to the world. A visually impaired user can communicate via their mobile devices with features like eyes free texting using braille, voice calling etc. They can easily take help in an emergency situation with the options of SOS emergency calling and video assistance.

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