Improving comfort of life of blind people is a problem of great importance. Neither a white canenor a guide dog, although both very useful, can be considered as a tool for achieving fullindependence in everyday movement around the city. On the market there are some navigation toolsinspired by car navigation systems, but they have many flaws, ranging from positioninginaccuracies to high prices. The authors present their own solution - a prototype application forcasual smartphones. It utilizes electrocompass, built-in GPS receiver and optional DGPS receiver,which ensures acceptable accuracy. Main spatial data source is the popular OpenStreetMapsystem, what makes system useful all around the world at no additional cost. Extra batch of spatialdata can be added by users or community. Software part of the system guides users to desiredtarget, using speech synthesis. It was written in a way ensuring portability, what makes it possibleto use on the majority of smartphones. The system is developed and tested with the support of blindconsultants.
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Additional information
- Category
- Publikacja monograficzna
- Type
- rozdział, artykuł w książce - dziele zbiorowym /podręczniku w języku o zasięgu międzynarodowym
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2011
