NAYAN-DRISHTI: A Revolutionary Navigation/Visual Aid for the Visually Impaired

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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UX Design Guideline for Health Mobile Application to Improve Accessibility for the Visually Impaired

Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication - Mobile Applications and Solutions for Social Inclusion ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5270-3.ch012 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 288-309

Author(s):

Woo Jin Kim ◽

Il Kon Kim ◽

Jongoh Kim ◽

Minji Kim

Keyword(s):

Mobile Application ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Retinal Disease ◽

Design Guidelines ◽

Web Content ◽

Rare Type ◽

Ux Design ◽

Visual Aid ◽

Accessibility Guidelines ◽

Content Accessibility

A health mobile application (app) has enabled users to access personal health records at any time and place. As an app provides health service to users, it is crucial for an app to be accessible to every user. However, often an app does not provide proper visual aid for users who are visually impaired. The authors restrict the range of visually impaired to retinitis pigmentosa (RP) patients in this chapter. RP is a rare type of progressive retinal disease that is hard to cure. Unfortunately, there are no established guidelines to assist RP patients in using their degrading sense of vision. In this chapter, the authors review WCAG (web content accessibility guidelines) specified by W3C, analyze the UX designs of 140 popular health apps chosen based on the number of download counts in app stores, and propose a set of standard-compliant UX design guidelines to assist the visually impaired (RP) in accessing visual data and evaluate its compliance compared to WCAG.

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Practicability verification of a visual aid system for the visually impaired

Proceedings 10th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. ROMAN 2001 (Cat. No.01TH8591) ◽

10.1109/roman.2001.981970 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. Takeno ◽

D. Ikeya

Keyword(s):

Visually Impaired ◽

Visual Aid

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Articulatory Intervention for the Visually Impaired

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1003.139 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 139-144

Author(s):

Cheri L. Florance ◽

Judith O’Keefe

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Behavior Change ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

School Students ◽

Handicapped Children ◽

Paired Stimuli ◽

Visually Handicapped ◽

Parent Program

A modification of the Paired-Stimuli Parent Program (Florance, 1977) was adapted for the treatment of articulatory errors of visually handicapped children. Blind high school students served as clinical aides. A discussion of treatment methodology, and the results of administrating the program to 32 children, including a two-year follow-up evaluation to measure permanence of behavior change, is presented.

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