Abstract
This work describes the implementation of a cost-effective assistive mobile application aiming to improve the quality of life of visually impaired people. Taking into account the architectural adaptations being done in many cities around the world, such as tactile sidewalks, the mobile application provides support to guide the visually impaired through outdoor/indoor spaces making use of various navigation technologies. The actual development of the application presented herein has been done taking into account that the safety of the end user will very much depend on the robustness, accuracy and timeliness of the information to be provided. Furthermore, we have based our development on open source code: a must for applications to be adapted to the cultural and social characteristics of urban areas across the world.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 690-694 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Procedia Computer Science |
| Volume | 83 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2016 |
| Event | 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, ANT 2016 and the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology, SEIT 2016 - Madrid, Spain Duration: 23 May 2016 → 26 May 2016 |
Keywords
- Beacon
- Bluetooth 4.0 BLE
- blind
- indoor route
- mobile devices
- navigation
- outdoor route
- smart path
- smart traffic light
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