virtual guide dog
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The Virtual Guide Dog (VGD)
Michael Kastner, Clemens NovakDigital Concepts, Linz, Austria
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Example app
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What is the VGD
Mobile system for improvement of the
– Communication (phone, sms, email)– Personal information management and – Mobility (pedestrian GPS)
of highly visual impaired people (not blind)
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Imagine
Imagine
What would you do with your android if you are strong visual impaired
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Target group, focus
§ The VGD is focused on people with a remaining visus of minimum 2 %!§ The VGD ist designed vor visual impaired people NOT blind§ The people of the target group wants to use their remaining capabilities
(their eyes) and they don´t want to be classified as blind.
§ As distinguished to other products (screenreader like voice over) the VGD has ist own, special UI concept
§ More possible target groups– Elderly people– All other visual impairements (like to high eye-pressure (f.e.
diabetics))
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The basic idea
§ The basic idea for interaction is based on colors. § 98% of visual impaired people are able to distinguish colors.
Even if they see blured or cloudy. § The buttons and the visualization depend on colored
interaction symbols which can be recognized unique by visual impaired people
§ Callbacks (f.e. search results of a list), status results or guidance instructions are talked via the speech synthesizer (tts)
§ The speech synthesizer also talks text from messages (email, sms) and so on.
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Basic idea II – color coding
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Whats the time?
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Interaction concepts
§ Colored interaction symbols§ Color-Keyboard§ Special Home Screen§ Speech synthesizer§ Swiping within lists§ Limitation to basic needs.
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Userinterface – example with contacts
forward/backswiping within the contacts
Filter the listwith standardSMS-Keyboard
2x = N
CallBackspace, delete lastcharacter
options
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Implemented functions
§ Telephone § Contactlist § SMS§ Clock, Date§ MP3 Player§ Calllists§ Calendar
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Working progress
§ Edit and compose new contacts§ Edit and compose new appoitments§ Alarm clock§ E-Mail „visualization“, edit and compose
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Planned
§ GPS routing for pedestrians– Based on Openstreetmap project– Business logic maybe from AndRoad– We do not need visualized maps
We need routing instructions
(routing, mapmatching, rerouting) …
§ Social-Network-Integration
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Added value for the people
§ Access to modern technologies§ Use of the the remaining visus (capabilities of the eyes)§ VGD was developed for the special needs of the people§ Cheap hardware, no special needs§ Social integration of impaired people§ Raising the self-respect of those§ Better selfemployment
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The future, wishes
§ Alternative map provider for navigation (f.e. google)– API, maps (directed graph, no visual map)
§ Phone API § Go open source§ Maybe crowd funding or investors
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Contact
Michael Kaster ([email protected])Clemens Novak ([email protected])
Digital Concepts Software & DesignLandstraße 68A-4020 Linz