MobileGadgetNews believes that our Windows Mobile devices are great tools for business and personal use. But they are also capable of helping people improve their quality of life. Microsoft sponsors the "Imagine Cup", an annual global competition which gives talented students around the globe the opportunity to showcase their innovative concepts for Information Technology. One group of students from India developed a software system for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices to assist visually impaired people sense their environment. A very noble application for a PocketPC.
Source: The Hindu
Agra, Aug. 8 (UNI): Technology has no boundaries, and this has once again been proved by a group of four students of Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), who have developed a software solution enabling blind people to dynamically move around and perceive their surroundings. Participating in the finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup being held here, students of DA-IICT including Deepak Jagdish, Mohit Gupta, Rahul Sawhney and Shreyas Nangia, in an attempt to bridge the gap between those visually-impaired and those not, have taken an initiative to develop a software to help 160 million visually-impaired people all over the world.
"We used ultrasonic sensors to map the place around the visually impaired person, and then provide a real-time 3D sound feedback of the environment, using a PocketPC running on Windows Mobile 5.0. The solution also extends to other platforms running on .NET Framework, and leverages accessibility of computers to the blind, using frequency grids and speech support," team members said while talking to reporters here.
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Aug 8 2006, 01:39 PM
