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DESIGN FOR ALL Providing accessible location information through iBeacons and the BlindSquare app 29.5.2015 HELSINKI

Providing accessible location information through iBeacons and the BlindSquare app

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DESIGN FOR ALL Providing accessible location information through iBeacons and the BlindSquare app

29.5.2015 HELSINKI

source: Matti Vuohelainen / Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired

ARGPS

Developed together with the end users

Fans are testing

3 weeks

3 languages

30 countries

3 years

25 languages

11 000 users

130+ countries

“For the first time in 64 years, I can navigate and know where I'm at without help from others,

or very little.”

“This is amazing! I am at a water park,

and your app told me where all of the attractions within the

waterpark relocated.”

"...but when I come indoor, I'm blind again.”

iBeacons, Indoor

Research project together with:

• MIPsoft / BlindSquare • Häme University of Applied Sciences • Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired • Kontakt.io • AfterShokz

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