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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"blind people"”.
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Recovering the Sight to blind People in indoor Environments with smart Technologies
… presented in this thesis address the problem of blind people rehabilitation through assistive technologies. In overall terms, the basic and principal needs that a blind individual might be concerned with can be confined to two components, namely (i) navigation/ obstacle avoidance, and (ii) object …
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Cognitive User-centred Design Approach to Improve Accessibility for Blind People during Online Interaction
… to have a fair level of equality in the society, blind people must also be able to use these facilities with equal ease and effectiveness Many governments decided to implement e-Government applications to enhance the delivery of information and services to its citizens, residents and businesses. …
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Spatial and Conceptual navigation in Early Blind people: Testing the scaffolding hypothesis of cognitive maps
… knowledge remains unclear. Here, we take blindness as a model to test whether the mechanisms ontogenetically evolved to navigate in space scaffold the navigation through concepts or, on the contrary, if spatial and abstract knowledge develop independently. In this thesis, I provide, for …
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Movement of the Organized Blind in India: From Passive Recipients of Services to Active Advocates of Their Rights
… very little effort to document the movement of blind people in India for their rights, which preceded the broader disability rights movement. I therefore conducted a qualitative study of this movement of blind people in India by using the methods of oral history and document analysis. For this …
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A wearable navigation system for augmenting guide dog object detection
… of a wearable object detection system for blind users to avoid collisions. Blind people rely upon tools such as guide dogs to navigate the world around them. However, even guide dogs are prone to errors that leave their owners prone to unexpected collisions with objects, such as low-hanging …
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Eyes-Free Input on Mobile Devices
… that aim to improve eyes-free data entry for blind mobile device users. Currently, mobile devices are generally accessible to blind people, but text entry is almost prohibitively slow. Studies show that blind people enter text on an iPhone at a rate of just 4 words per minute. I describe …
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2D Vector Map and Database design for Indoor Assisted Navigation
… applications, such as assisted navigation for blind people.</p> <p>A graphical application as developed in C++ to allow the user to input a CAD DXF file, process the file to automatically obtain nodes and edges, and save the nodes and edges to a database for posterior use. The use of a database …
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Object Detection and Recognition for Visually Impaired People
… new method to detect the indoor signage to help blind people find their destination in unfamiliar environments. Our method first extracts the attended areas by using a saliency map. Then the signage is detected in the attended areas by using bipartite graph matching. The proposed method can …
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The effects of blindness on tactile and auditory perception in rats
Folklore has long held that blind people gain, relative to normal people, in their sensitivity to other sensory modalities. Although supported only by equivocal evidence, this position probably first appeared in mythology in early Greek literature. Oedipus Rex was attributed greater awareness of …
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Being-blind-in-the-world: a phenomenological analysis of blindness and a formulation of new objectives in rehabilitation
This work contains a phenomenological analysis of blindness, providing a basis for the evaluation of rehabilitation practice in South Africa and the formulation of future objectives in the field. Stereotypes of blindness associated with the perspectives of consumerism, scientific research, and …
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Development of MIT geospatial data to CityGML workflows
BlindAid is a virtual environment system that helps blind people learn in advance about places they plan to visit. A core component of the BlindAid system is the actual set of virtual models that represent physical locations. In order for BlindAid to be useful, there must be a means to generate new …
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Accessibility in museums : where are we and where are we headed
This study examines the experience of blind people in science and art museums. It is important for two reasons. First, museums have the potential to become hotbeds for the development of inclusive technology and practices. Second, improving the experience for a small section of society with special …
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Sonification of the Scene in the Image Environment and Metaverse Using Natural Language
… vision-powered application is designed to serve people with low vision or a visual impairment, ranging from adults to old age. Specifically, we hope to improve the situational awareness of users in a scene by narrating the visual content from their point of view. The user would be able to …
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Improving roundabouts for cyclists and visually impaired
… there are reports of accessibility problems for people with visual impairment. The overall objective of this project is to identify designs that improve the situation for these two groups of road users in roundabouts. This implies that acquiring a profound understanding of the current problems …
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Considerations for the Development of Non-Visual Interfaces for Driving Applications
… has been done specifically related to those for blind driving. Many automation technologies have been developed for the purpose of assisting and improving the safety of sighted drivers, but to enable a true driving experience without any sense of sight has been an essentially overlooked area of …
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Identification and Mitigation of NLOS based on Channel Information Rules for Indoor UWB Localization
… it can be applied to track children, people with special needs, help navigate blind people, locate equipment, mobile robots, etc. The objective of this thesis is to enable an indoor mobile vehicle to determine its location and thereby making it capable of autonomous localization under …
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Optophone design: optical-to-auditory vision substitution for the blind
… that turns light into sound for the benefit of blind people. The present project is intended to produce a general-purpose optophone to be worn on the head about the house and in the street, to give the wearer a detailed description in sound of the'scene he is facing. The device will therefore …
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'They can because they think they can?' : the education of pupils at two secondary schools for the blind, 1920-58
Blind children were one of the first 'disabled' groups to be given an education by the State. However, for most children with a visual impairment, this schooling was only at an elementary level. This study looks at how pupils at Worcester College for the Blind and Chorleywood College for girls with …
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