NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEM FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE


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Creator/Artist: Vicky Chindaliya

Category: Communication Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2015-2017

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Sudesh Balan


Detailed Description

Signs are important in daily life. It gives us directions, signals, warnings, and introduces places and buildings. Without the signboards, it will be difficult to navigate the city. Maybe one can manage with the architectural mapping, but people with visual impairments can’t see architecture or buildings to navigate. For them, it is necessary to get signals to navigate in any form of communication that they can access through other senses except vision. In the absence of signage, people with visual impairments rely on other people. And because of this, many cases of rape occurred among the visually impaired. If they could know where they are going and where they are standing, that could help them. This project was done to address this problem. One mobile app and a tactile tile were designed to provide signage information. To map all signage, beacon technology is considered with the incorporation of Google's developed tactile pavements to indicate the location of signage.