Amorim, F.R.; Santil, F.L.P. Prototype of Mobile Device to Contribute to Urban Mobility of Visually Impaired People. Big Data Cogn. Comput.2018, 2, 38.
Amorim, F.R.; Santil, F.L.P. Prototype of Mobile Device to Contribute to Urban Mobility of Visually Impaired People. Big Data Cogn. Comput. 2018, 2, 38.
Amorim, F.R.; Santil, F.L.P. Prototype of Mobile Device to Contribute to Urban Mobility of Visually Impaired People. Big Data Cogn. Comput.2018, 2, 38.
Amorim, F.R.; Santil, F.L.P. Prototype of Mobile Device to Contribute to Urban Mobility of Visually Impaired People. Big Data Cogn. Comput. 2018, 2, 38.
Abstract
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.
Keywords
visually impaired people; mobile devices; assistive cartography.
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Space and Planetary Science
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Commenter: Ambeer
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