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Electronic Systems Designed to Guide Visually Impaired People in Public Areas: Importance of Environmental Audio Description

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Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2019 (IHSI 2019)

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This research had as main objective to contribute with the design of assistive technologies to assist the locomotion of visually impaired people. We sought to investigate aspects of audio description in portable electronic devices with synthesized voice for the guidance in public environments, to in’ public and mass transports. Previous research has shown that the use of electronic equipment with a specific format of audio description, with environmental information, may be of great importance for the autonomous mobility of visually impaired people. In this study, after bibliographic explorations, practical observations were performed in controlled and public environments in Sao Paulo city, using qualitative research techniques with visually impaired volunteers. The analysis of the experiments has demonstrated the importance of studying the phrases to be transmitted, with the purpose of correctly informing about the environment and the route.

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  1. The São Paulo Metropolitan Company, Operation Management, Rua Vergueiro, 1200, 01504000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Eliete Mariani

  2. Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Rua do Lago 876, 05508080, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Jaldomir da Silva Filho

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  1. University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Waldemar Karwowski

  2. Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Tareq Ahram

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Mariani, E., da Silva Filho, J. (2019). Electronic Systems Designed to Guide Visually Impaired People in Public Areas: Importance of Environmental Audio Description. In: Karwowski, W., Ahram, T. (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2019. IHSI 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 903. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11051-2_92

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