Assisting Persons with Low Vision during Everyday Tasks using Augmented Reality

Persons with visual impairments often have residual vision, even if they are legally blind. In this research project, we want to develop technology to assist persons with visual impairment in their everyday life. We want to use augmented reality to enhance the real world visually. The system will be implemented to extract all necessary information for at least one specific task from the environment. Based on previous research with people with visual impairment and relevant literature, we will then design specific augmentations to present the extracted and visually complex information in a visually simple way. We aim to submit the results to international conferences. In general, the resulting system should assist persons with visual impairment during at least one everyday task. The focus of this internship will be on the technical development of the system, rather than on its evaluation. Such user studys may take place during a later stage of research.

Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Brooks

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Partner:

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education

University:

Dalhousie University

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