scholarly journals Energy Efficient Smart Guidance System For Visually Challenged Persons

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1178-1182
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Guidance System ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Visually Challenged ◽  
Reliable Solution ◽  
Physically Challenged ◽  
Visually Disabled

One of the social responsibilities of emerging technologies is to help physically challenged people. One of them is to assist the blind people to walk alone. The main challenges confronting the visually disabled people while walking is that they are not conscious of the environment as they move in and out because they are not fully aware of their position and direction with regard to traffic and barriers in their path. Smart shoes provide the blind people with auditory assistance in coping with the difficulties they face in walking like regular human beings. The objective is likely to make a self direction framework which helps outwardly tested (or daze) individuals to walk autonomously. The idea is more about the smart shoes that warn visually disabled people in their ways to challenge which may allow them to move with less collision. The target is to tackle a reliable solution that involves a shoe interacts with users through vibrations and audio alert. Our key contribution is towards energy efficient self guidance system.

Um estudo acerca da profissiografia e "identidades" de pessoas cegas: Vivências, desafios e acessibilidade

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roselandia Maria Serra Verde Coelho Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Identity Recognition ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

The aim of this book is to contribute to a greater visibility of spaces occupied by blind or visually impaired people in professional training and in the labor market. Therefore, the focus is on the issue of the multiple identities of those social actors and the connection between the challenge of identity recognition and professional training and practice.This finding came from observations at the Associação Baiana de Cegos (ABC), from 2015-2018, in Salvador-Bahia. This institution has been mobilizing with great effort, since 1985, in favor of the training, qualification and referral of blind people to the labor market. The research corpus is formed by a set of data collected through semi-directive interviews, with a narrative focus and observations of everyday life situations in the research locus. When discussing about the social actors as “human beings as projects of being”, I emphasized the issue of subjectivities linked to the processes of professional training and I highlighted the paradigmatic overcomes. In this context, I outlined the individual and collective advances and setbacks, which are still challenging aspects for the inclusion and, above all, for the permanence in the labor process. At last, I understand that it is at least challenging to think that, on one hand, there is a labor market going through an unemployment crisis and, on the other hand, there is the issue regarding the remaining spaces for blind people in such a scenario.

scholarly journals Real-Time Object Detection Using Yolo Algorithm for Blind People

2021 ◽  
pp. 152-156
Author(s):  
Prof. Pradnya Kasture ◽  
Akshay Tangade ◽  
Aditya Pole ◽  
Aishwarya Kumkar ◽  
Yash Jagtap
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Blind Person ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Visually Challenged ◽  
Audio Output ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Detection And Recognition

Vision is one of the foremost necessary sense that human beings use to interact with the surrounding objects. There are more than 200 visually challenges people in this world and being visually challenged obstruct lots of daily activities. Hence it is very important for blind person to know what objects they are interacting with and understand their surroundings. In this project we have created a website, which help the blind people to identify different objects in the surrounding using YOLO V3 algorithm. This integrates different technologies to build a rich website which not only helps to recognize different object in the visually challenged persons surrounding in real time but also guides them through an audio output. YOLO (You Only Look at Once) algorithm is used for object detection and recognition. This algorithm gives very close accuracy for object detection in real time and studies have also proven the this algorithm is faster and better than other object detection algorithms.

scholarly journals Designing a Website for Visually Challenged Persons

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Keyword(s):  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Test Results ◽  
The People ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Color Blind ◽  
Visually Challenged ◽  
Online Stores ◽  
Impaired Person ◽  
Physically Challenged

In recent times it has become necessary for any business to have an online platform to remain relevant and competitive. Because of this necessity, many businesses including small enterprises now operate an e-commerce web store to increase sales and attract new customers. Moreover, entrepreneurs don't need to stress over finding a spot to raise their stores and clients can have unhindered access to a wide scope of items whenever they need and at anyplace on the planet. The online stores or ecommerce websites are very useful to the people who have difficulty in accessing the outside world. While these websites are useful for other physically challenged people, most of the websites are not designed to be usable by visually impaired, partially blind or even color-blind people. The different types of blindness are surveyed in this paper and the paper proposes a framework that uses various techniques to aid the visually challenged, partially impaired person or color-blind people. An online food ordering website is developed using the framework and is tested by making the website available for use for visually blind, partially blind and color blind. The test results show that the framework had increased the usability of the website by them.

Dis/Abling Spaces of Calculation: Blindness and Money in Everyday Life

10.1068/d4173 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 594-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schillmeier
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Social Understanding ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Visually Disabled ◽  
Empirical Material

In this paper I attempt to explore how ‘ordinary acts’ of dealing with money and with money technologies fabricate enabling and disabling—dis/abling—spaces of calculation. Rather than referring to money merely as a general symbolic medium of exchange, I highlight the materiality and the sensory practices involved in handling money and shaping the practice of sociality. Drawing on empirical material, I explicate some of the ways in which everyday practices with money are distinctively important for visually disabled people. Combining sociological and social philosophical thoughts with insights from science and technology studies, I rethink the social understanding of money and disability. I explore how (visual) dis/ability is situated in everyday practices and suggest that it can be understood neither as an individual bodily impairment nor as a socially attributed disability. Both money and blindness become visible as complex sets of calculate practices, linking bodies, material objects, and technologies with sensory practices. These practices, I conclude, draw attention to the heterogeneous fabrication of sociality and to the emerging dis/abling spaces of calculation that unfold in the course of everyday life.

scholarly journals IoT Based Novel Smart Blind Guidance System

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
Yashvi Khera ◽  
Pawan Whig
Keyword(s):  
Unique Feature ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Group Communication ◽  
Guidance System ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Blind People ◽  
The Road ◽  
Alert Message ◽  
The Social ◽  
On The Road

In this research paper the system which is proposed that can be used for safe walking for blinds. This system consist of wireless sensor within the stick which provide the information of the obstacle between the way. The main advantage of this system is the safe for the blind people walking on the road, and make them independent while walking. When obstacle is detected an alert will be given to user with the help of buzzer an vibration . The unique feature of the system is to detect the temperature of a person who passes within the range of 6 feet of which helps in maintaining the social distancing in COVID situation. The system contains a wireless sensor that integrates temporary networks that can be made within the navigation stick, which can provide group communication between them, where roaming information and networks can be provided. With the help of IOT the location and alert message shared with family members in case of emergency. The system proposed in this research study is 60% more efficient then conventional system. The information is included in table1 to validate  the result.

Current issues in aesthetics and beyond: Revisiting lookism

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Peter Takáč
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Common View ◽  
Aesthetic Medicine ◽  
Unequal Treatment ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Public Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

AbstractLookism is a term used to describe discrimination based on the physical appearance of a person. We suppose that the social impact of lookism is a philosophical issue, because, from this perspective, attractive people have an advantage over others. The first line of our argumentation involves the issue of lookism as a global ethical and aesthetical phenomenon. A person’s attractiveness has a significant impact on the social and public status of this individual. The common view in society is that it is good to be more attractive and healthier. This concept generates several ethical questions about human aesthetical identity, health, authenticity, and integrity in society. It seems that this unequal treatment causes discrimination, diminishes self-confidence, and lowers the chance of a job or social enforcement for many human beings. Currently, aesthetic improvements are being made through plastic surgery. There is no place on the human body that we cannot improve with plastic surgery or aesthetic medicine. We should not forget that it may result in the problem of elitism, in dividing people into primary and secondary categories. The second line of our argumentation involves a particular case of lookism: Melanie Gaydos. A woman that is considered to be a model with a unique look.

New Wars and Their Visual Representation: Dead Bodies without Graves/Mourne

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Tuncay Şur ◽  
Betül Yarar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
War Photography ◽  
New Wars ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

This paper seeks to understand why there has been an increase in photographic images exposing military violence or displaying bodies killed by military forces and how they can freely circulate in the public without being censored or kept hidden. In other words, it aims to analyze this particular issue as a symptom of the emergence of new wars and a new regime of their visual representation. Within this framework, it attempts to relate two kinds of literature that are namely the history of war and war photography with the bridge of theoretical discussions on the real, its photographic representation, power, and violence.  Rather than systematic empirical analysis, the paper is based on a theoretical attempt which is reflected on some socio-political observations in the Middle East where there has been ongoing wars or new wars. The core discussion of the paper is supported by a brief analysis of some illustrative photographic images that are served through the social media under the circumstances of war for instance in Turkey between Turkish military troops and the Kurdish militants. The paper concludes that in line with the process of dissolution/transformation of the old nation-state formations and globalization, the mechanism and mode of power have also transformed to the extent that it resulted in the emergence of new wars. This is one dynamic that we need to recognize in relation to the above-mentioned question, the other is the impact of social media in not only delivering but also receiving war photographies. Today these changes have led the emergence of new machinery of power in which the old modern visual/photographic techniques of representing wars without human beings, torture, and violence through censorship began to be employed alongside medieval power techniques of a visual exhibition of tortures and violence.

The Property Species

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart J. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Symbolic Thought ◽  
Core Property ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

What is property, and why does our species happen to have it? The Property Species explores how Homo sapiens acquires, perceives, and knows the custom of property, and why it might be relevant for understanding how property works in the twenty-first century. Arguing from some hard-to-dispute facts that neither the natural sciences nor the humanities—nor the social sciences squarely in the middle—are synthesizing a full account of property, this book offers a cross-disciplinary compromise that is sure to be controversial: All human beings and only human beings have property in things, and at its core, property rests on custom, not rights. Such an alternative to conventional thinking contends that the origins of property lie not in food, mates, territory, or land, but in the very human act of creating, with symbolic thought, something new that did not previously exist. Integrating cognitive linguistics with the philosophy of property and a fresh look at property disputes in the common law, this book makes the case that symbolic-thinking humans locate the meaning of property within a thing. The provocative implications are that property—not property rights—is an inherent fundamental principle of economics, and that legal realists and the bundle-of-sticks metaphor are wrong about the facts regarding property. Written by an economist who marvels at the natural history of humankind, the book is essential reading for experts and any reader who has wondered why people claim things as “Mine!,” and what that means for our humanity.

The Measure of Greatness

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Moral Nature ◽  
Complex Trajectory ◽  
The Many ◽  
Human Excellence ◽  
Ethical Perspectives

Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as the philosophical virtue par excellence, it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle’s account of human excellence and was accorded an equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. One of the most distinctive elements of the ancient tradition to filter into the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds, it sparked important intellectual engagements there and went on to carve deep tracks through several later philosophies that inherited from this tradition. Under changing names, under reworked forms, it continued to breathe in the thought of Descartes and Hume, Kant and Nietzsche, and their successors. Its many lives have been joined by important continuities. Yet they have also been fragmented by discontinuities—discontinuities reflecting larger shifts in ethical perspectives and competing answers to questions about the nature of the good life, the moral nature of human beings, and their relationship to the social and natural world they inhabit. They have also been punctuated by moments of controversy in which the greatness of this vision of human greatness has itself been called into doubt. This volume provides a window to the complex trajectory of a virtue whose glitter has at times been as heady as it has been divisive. By exploring the many lives it has lived, we will be in a better position to decide whether and why this is a virtue we might still want to make central to our own ethical lives.

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