Navigation Aid for Visually Impaired

NAVI is a navigation system for blind and visually impaired users. The Main Aspects of the project are User Interface The system will be used by people who can't see or read the ouput given on a screen. Therefore we must provide feedback and ouput in acustic and tactile mode. The input must be designed in a way that the user knows also without seing something where in the menus he is and how he can get where he wants. Data filtering During the navigation process a lot of events occur where the system has some informational output for the user. Through data filtering we want to guess which information the user wants to know and which information isn't of interest.

General Overview of Members and Papers

For more Information about the subprojects, please review NaviUserInterface, NaviDataFiltering.

Participants

Students

• Günther Harrasser
• Florian Reitmeir

Staff/Tutors

• Prof. Gudrun Klinker, Ph.D. (TUM)
• Dipl.-Inf. Martin Bauer (TUM)
• Dipl.-Inf. Martin Wagner (TUM)
• Dipl.-Inf. Christian Sandor (TUM)

Timeline

Datum	Milestone	Folien
30.09.2003	Erste Demo, Theorie + GPS ( debug NAVI ), allgemein Thema den Zuhörer näher bringen, Aufgabenstellung	PDF/PPT/SXI
27.10.2003	konkrete Implementierung (feature complete)
18.11.2003	Abschlussdemo
15.12.2003	Abgabetermin Ausarbeitung
20.01.2004	Abschlussvortrag im AR Oberseminar

Documents

• Szenario, Storyboard, System
• PAC Mate BNS Owners Manual (mirror)

self enhanced Software

• GPS-Daemon

Used Software

• flite - free speech generation
• sqlite - a embedded sql engine for c++
• DWARF

Images of NAVI prototype

• Images