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Blueeyes : easing the navigation and orientation of blind people
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As reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), of the 7 billion people alive today, an estimated 253 million live
with visual impairment that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses. From these, 30 million blind or partially
sighted persons live in Europe. Over the past years, blindness that is caused by diseases has decreased due to the success
of public health actions. However, the number of blind people that are over 60 years old is increasing by 2 million per
decade. Unfortunately, all these numbers are estimated to be doubled by 2020. With these facts, is necessary to bring
awareness and understanding of the challenges blind people face and help to motivate research into new technology to
answer those questions. This document starts to identify the challenges people with visual disabilities face in their life.
The problem of navigation and orientation as well the different possibilities to deal with the locomotion situation is also
addressed in this paper. It describes the traditional navigational solutions as well other which involves more sophisticated
technological devices and their multimodal interfaces. The paper ends with the description of the BlueEyes project
(Orvalho, 2016), consisting in a solution to help blind people moving in a city. The first phases of the project are
described, and the actual research situations is also slightly explained.
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Beacons Internet of thinks Human Computer Interaction Context-aware mobile computing Accessibility, Blind