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Escuela Superior Politcnica de Chimborazo

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Topic: Imagine a world where technologies help us to resolve the more difficulttroubles

AuthorsName E-mail

Magali Prez C. [email protected]

Carla Prez G. [email protected]

Diego Cajas G. [email protected]

Tutor: Ivan Menes [email protected]

Country: Ecuador Date January 13th 2011

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Case Study Approach

In Ecuador, 13.2% of the population is people with disabilities it is about 1'600 .000

people, of whom 363,000 people suffer from disabilities and visually impaired.

Unfortunately, this situation limits to these people to lead normal lives and they

need rods if they understand the environment, or a person who guided them to

move to unknown locations, or worst; most of these people simply not leave

home for fear of not being able to orient themselves in the city.

Our proposal is oriented to improve the quality of life for blind people using

technology, with the use of a mobile device that get positioning coordinates of

any place required by the blind person, this information will be sent to the

application and transformed to sound (voice).

This will ensure that the blind person can move better because the application will

provide the best route to reach your destination, avoiding the need of a guide,

and help them to improve their self-esteem and trust to leave home and

therefore carry a more enjoyable lifestyle, permitting true social inclusion for all

blind people.

Vision Statement

Improving the quality of life of people with visual disabilities to lead their normal

activities and reduce dependence on relatives or guides, allowing them to be part

of the development of the country achieving true social inclusion with equal

opportunities.

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Solution Concept

Everybody mobilize to do anything, we shop, stroll, or just to distract us, but if we

think like a visually impaired person, we will understand that is a completely different

world, they need too much help to get somewhere.

To affront this problem we propose the use our system, using global positioning

system (GPS) and maps perfectly designed with strategic sites that will allow the user

realize a map, get the distance to that place, the number of streets to cross, or simply

your current location. When you're with people with visual disabilities all information

transmitted and receipted is managed with sound (voice), allowing the blind person to

use technology to improve their self-esteem and quality of life.

Fig 1. blind people using Cyclops Fig 2. Maps that will guide to any place

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Goals, objectives, assumptions and constraints

Goals

Improve the quality of life for people with visual disabilities.

Reduce dependence on relatives or guides.

Develop a Global Partnership for Development persons with visual disabilities.

Ensuring the integration of blind people to a technological environment.

Objectives

Develop an application that provides positioning to a blind person through the use ofyour cell phone.

Allow families have information about the location of the blind person reducing risks.

Assumptions

Using the voice can operate any application of a cell and it also has the ability to

process information and convert it in sounds (voice).

The advancement of mobile technology allows the use of software applications on

them easier.

Difficulties

In rural areas is more difficult to access to such mobile devices.

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Architectural design strategy

The system consists of four modules that jointly emit the information required by the

user.

Positioning Module, get latitude, longitude and height from any point on Earth where

the user is located and send this information to the location module where with

coordinates will check maps of the site review and return the location this will be

streets and key points of location.

Place module, collects the end user information, this is issued by sound (voice).

If you want to set a specific route you will do it in the Trace Route module, allowing

the user to create routes to get faster so a place on a map, tracing the path and

transform it into sound to be receipted by the blind person.

This system can be used in any location where the user is located.

Fig. 3 Subsystems communication

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Place

Trace Route

Ubication

Positioning


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Technology used

Fig 4. Technology used

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