Enriquecendo a experiência de uso do piso tátil com audiodescrições providas por celular

  • Authors:
  • Emiliano Firmino;Mauro Teófilo

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil;Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We use our eyesight to acquire information about the environment in our daily life and so move safely from one place to another. The visually impaired do not have the same privilege. They need a companion or plan ahead how get there using other sources of information. Nowadays, the mobile phone are an useful and practical source of information, however visually impaired in many development countries have difficulty with mobile phones that are inappropriate for them. Audioguide try to bring to those mobile phones information about the environment and routes, combined with other cheap accessibility technology the tactile floor. Audioguide aims to provide independence to its users during their locomotion.