Real-Time Scene Monitoring for Deaf-Blind People

It is estimated that at least 15 million people worldwide live with severe deaf-blindness, with many more experiencing varying degrees of deaf-blindness. The existing options of assistance are mostly limited to walking canes, guide dogs and human care. We propose a wearable device which harnesses a...

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Autores principales: Kassem, Khaled, Caramazza, Piergiorgio, Mitchell, Kevin J., Miller, Mitch, Emadi, Azadeh, Faccio, Daniele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
Materias:
Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9571695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36236236
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22197136
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Sumario:It is estimated that at least 15 million people worldwide live with severe deaf-blindness, with many more experiencing varying degrees of deaf-blindness. The existing options of assistance are mostly limited to walking canes, guide dogs and human care. We propose a wearable device which harnesses a multi-antenna mmWave radar transceiver and a haptic feedback array for real time detection of a person moving within a scene. We present our findings from a series of workshops with participants classed with multi-sensory impairments (MSI), to demonstrate the relative success of this approach and its potential for integration into existing assistance for the MSI of the future.

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