scholarly journals Blind orphanage with blind space approach in Jakarta

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.

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.

scholarly journals Visual Assistant for Blind People using Raspberry Pi

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.

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

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.

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

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.

scholarly journals Touchable Online Braille Generator

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wooseob Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Force Feedback ◽  
User Studies ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Optimal Conditions ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Access Information ◽  
The Web

A prototype of a touchable online Braille generator has been developed for the visually impaired or blind using force feedback technology, which has been used in video games for years. Without expensive devices, this prototype allows blind people to access information on the Web by touching output Braille displays with a force feedback mouse. The data collected from user studies conducted with blind participants has provided valuable information about the optimal conditions for the use of the prototype. The end product of this research will enable visually impaired people to enjoy information on the Web more freely.

scholarly journals Using wrist vibrations to guide hand movement and whole body navigation

i-com ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anke Brock ◽  
Slim Kammoun ◽  
Marc Macé ◽  
Christophe Jouffrais
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Hand Movement ◽  
Tactile Feedback ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Wizard Of Oz ◽  
Audio Cues ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

SummaryIn the absence of vision, mobility and orientation are challenging. Audio and tactile feedback can be used to guide visually impaired people. In this paper, we present two complementary studies on the use of vibrational cues for hand guidance during the exploration of itineraries on a map, and whole body-guidance in a virtual environment. Concretely, we designed wearable Arduino bracelets integrating a vibratory motor producing multiple patterns of pulses. In a first study, this bracelet was used for guiding the hand along unknown routes on an interactive tactile map. A wizard-of-Oz study with six blindfolded participants showed that tactons, vibrational patterns, may be more efficient than audio cues for indicating directions. In a second study, this bracelet was used by blindfolded participants to navigate in a virtual environment. The results presented here show that it is possible to significantly decrease travel distance with vibrational cues. To sum up, these preliminary but complementary studies suggest the interest of vibrational feedback in assistive technology for mobility and orientation for blind people.

scholarly journals Prototype of Mobile Device to Contribute in Urban Mobility of the Visually Impaired People

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabricio Amorim ◽  
Fernando Santil
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Test Area ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Blind Individuals

The vision can be used to recognize images and to improve mental pictures of environments. Visually impaired people feel a lack of aid for their independent or facilitated urban mobility, which can be achieved with the use of mobile devices and cartographic tools using audiovisual outputs. This work raises issues about urban mobility for the accessibility of visually impaired people in areas still unexplored by them, it uses cartographic technologies in electronic devices. For a preview of the test area located in Monte Carmelo (MG), a tactile model was used to form the first image of the eight volunteers. Results were obtained through research with not blind and blind individuals, it validated the use of áreas’s mobile registration prototype positioning in field or not, when the coordinates from the objects are known for registration. The results indicate that both the tactile model and the audiovisual prototype can be used by blind and non-blind people. Above all, the prototype proved to be a viable and adequate option for decision making in urban environments. New ways of presenting data to blind or otherwise blind people can still be studied.

scholarly journals An Intelligent Walking Stick for the Visually-Impaired People

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Nowshin ◽  
Sakib Shadman ◽  
Sakib Shadman ◽  
Saha Joy ◽  
Saha Joy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Blind People ◽  
World War ◽  
Blind Person ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Android App ◽  
First World

Blind stick or white cane is introduced to blind people after the First World War as a mobility tool to detect the obstacles in the path of the user. This paper proposes an Arduino Nano based obstacle finding stick for visually-impaired people, which helps a blind person by detecting the obstacles using Ultrasonic sensors and android mobile application. It is able to inform the blind person about the circumstances & present condition of the path where he/she is walking. The main objective of this paper is to help a blind people to move more freely by using a reliable stick. The device consists of arduino nano, HC SR-04 ultrasonic sensor, HC-05 Bluetooth module, push buttons, 100nF ceramic capacitors and a 9V battery as the power source. And the android app is developed using MIT App Inventor 2.

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.

scholarly journals Innovative Approach for 3D Presentation of Plane Culturally-Historical Objects by Tactile Plates for Disadvantaged Users (low- sighted or visually impaired)

2019 ◽  
Vol 292 ◽  
pp. 03004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitar Karastoyanov ◽  
Nikolay Stoimenov ◽  
Stanislav Gyoshev
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Patent Application ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
3D Presentation

The presented paper aims to create a more affordable way to present culturally-historical objects like paintings, masterpieces, tapestries, objects, artifacts, etc., and make it more accessible to visually impaired or blind people. The State of the Art of the team shows that the already used method received good feedback at the exhibition "Battle of Pavia 1525" in Pavia, Italy, from more than 11 000 people, who take part in exhibition in Italy. This encouraged the team to continue developing the idea. An approach on the base of the Bulgarian patent application named “Tactile graphical tile for visually impaired people” is described. By using innovative methods for 3D digitalization, also by using more accessible and affordable materials for 3D printing the culturally- historical objects can be presented in schools for visually impaired or blind people. By using approaches are shown how can be reduced the time for 3D digitalization. Conclusion and future developments are presented.

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