Augmented Audio Reality Mobile Application Specially Designed for Visually Impaired People

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios P. Soukaras ◽  
Ioannis K. Chaniotis ◽  
Ioannis G. Karagiannis ◽  
Ilianna S. Stampologlou ◽  
Christianna A. Triantafyllou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

scholarly journals Pharmaceutical mobile application for visually-impaired people in Thailand: development and implementation

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Acrapol Nimmolrat ◽  
Pattaraporn Khuwuthyakorn ◽  
Purida Wientong ◽  
Orawit Thinnukool
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Visual Disabilities ◽  
Pharmaceutical Application ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

Abstract Background Most mobile pharmaceutical applications produced for people with visual disabilities in Thailand fail to meet the required standard due to poor-quality regulations, defective design, lack of user support and impracticality; as a result, visually-impaired people are unable to use them. This research is motivated by the limited use of this technology in primary medical services and its aim is to enable people with disabilities to access effective digital health information. The research objective is to analyse, design and develop a mobile pharmaceutical application with functions that are appropriate for visually-impaired users, and test its usability. Results Based on the design and development of the application, it contained five necessary functions. When testing the usability and users’ satisfaction, it was found that the input or fill of information in the application was of low usability. According to the test results, the medicinal database function was missing 71 times and the voice command function was missing 34 times. Based on users’ satisfaction results, users who had the highest level of usage gave higher average scores to users’ attitude, users’ confidence, user interface and system performance than those with lower levels of usage. The scores of both groups were found to be the same when discussing the implementation of the development. Conclusions This mobile application, which was developed based on the use of smart technology, will play an important role in supporting visually-impaired people in Thailand by enhancing the efficacy of self-care. The design and development of the application will ensure the suitability of many functions for visually-impaired users. However, despite the high functional capacity of the application, the gap in healthcare services between the general public and disabled groups will still exist if users have inadequate IT skills.

LêRótulos: A Mobile Application Based on Text Recognition in Images to Assist Visually Impaired People

2018 ◽  
pp. 337-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Damasio Oliveira ◽  
Olimar Teixeira Borges ◽  
Vanessa Stangherlin Machado Paixão-Cortes ◽  
Marcia de Borba Campos ◽  
Rafael Mendes Damasceno
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Text Recognition ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

An Intelligent Mobile Application for Assisting Visually Impaired in Daily Consumption Based on Machine Learning with Assistive Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 2140002
Author(s):  
Sin-Chun Ng ◽  
Chok-Pang Kwok ◽  
Sin-Hang Chung ◽  
Yuen-Yan Leung ◽  
Hoi-Shan Pang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Daily Consumption ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Canned Foods ◽  
Intelligent Recognition

Visually impaired people are facing many difficulties in daily life because of the disability in visual sensation. In daily consumption, they are hard to perform the transactions solely. They need to be assisted by other people in daily life, especially in purchasing, since they cannot recognize the different products with similar shapes and sizes. Also, in processing payment, visually impaired people are hard to differentiate the denominations (values) of banknotes. And many derived problems, such as cheating and providing the improper products, are being occurred. In this paper, an intelligent recognition system has been developed for visually impaired people in Hong Kong. The application system can help the users recognize canned foods and differentiate the nominal values of the banknotes so as to complete the monetary transactions efficiently and effectively. The application can be installed in smartphones with voice and vibration. By applying neural networks with assistive technology, the accuracies of recognizing banknotes and canned food are over 95% and 75%, respectively.

scholarly journals Assistive Mobile Application for Visually Impaired People

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (16) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Sriraksha Nayak ◽  
Chandrakala C B
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
World Health ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Schedule Management ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Speech Recognition Engine ◽  
Health Organization

According to the World Health Organization estimation, globally the number of people with some visual impairment is estimated to be 285 million, of whom 39 million are blind.  The inability to use features such as sending and reading of email, schedule management, pathfinding or outdoor navigation, and reading SMS is a disadvantage for blind people in many professional and educational situations. Speech or text analysis can help improve support for visually-impaired people. Users can speak a command to perform a task. The spoken command will be interpreted by the Speech Recognition Engine (SRE) and can be converted into text or perform suitable actions. In this paper, an application that allows schedule management, emailing, and SMS reading completely based on voice command is proposed, implemented, and validated. The System hopes to provide blind people to simply speak the desired functionality and be guided thereby the system’s audio instructions. The proposed and designed app is implemented to support three languages which are English, Hindi, and Kannada.

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