BLINDPAD
Personal Assistive Device for BLIND and visually impaired people
| Coordinatore | FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
Organization address
address: VIA MOREGO 30 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Italy [IT] |
| Totale costo | 2˙583˙705 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙999˙999 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2013-10 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2014 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2014-01-01 - 2016-12-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
Organization address
address: VIA MOREGO 30 contact info |
IT (GENOVA) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
ATEKNEA SOLUTIONS HUNGARY KFT
Organization address
address: TETENYI UT 84-86 contact info |
HU (BUDAPEST) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
Organization address
address: BATIMENT CE 3316 STATION 1 contact info |
CH (LAUSANNE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
FUNDACJA INSTYTUT ROZWOJU REGIONALNEGO
Organization address
address: ULICA JOZEFA WYBICKIEGO 3 A contact info |
PL (KRAKOW) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
GEOMOBILE GMBH
Organization address
address: EMIL FIGGE STRASSE 80 contact info |
DE (DORTMUND) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
ISTITUTO DAVID CHIOSSONE PER I CIECHI E GLI IPOVEDENTI ONLUS ASSOCIAZIONE
Organization address
address: CORSO ARMELLINI 11 contact info |
IT (GENOVA) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
For visually impaired people it is difficult to digitally get graphical contents increasingly conveyed through sight. The sense of touch can potentially bridge the gap, as it is crucial - in absence of vision - for understanding abstract concepts and acquiring information about the surroundings. Examples are learning at school and developing mental maps in orientation and mobility daily tasks.nHowever, available touch screens have limited or no tactile feedback at all. The potential and the market of tactile displays is largely unexploited, although there is a clear demand from users: these devices need to become more versatile, cheaper, portable and socially acceptable.nThe objective the project is to make graphical contents accessible through touch by building and field-testing a Personal Assistive Device for BLIND and visually impaired people (BLINDPAD).nBLINDPAD will put veridical touch-based information into the hands of users, exploiting and enhancing their residual sensory abilities.nThe BLINDPAD will exploit the most effective between two new technologies of different risk level: MEMS nanocomposite membranes actuated by magnetic micro-coils and dry ionic electroactive actuators (bucky gels) operated at low voltages. The technologies will be developed, compared in terms of actuation force, resolution, safety, power consumption and reliability.nBy adopting a user-centered approach within an accessible and usable ecosystem, we will assess, with serious games, how the BLINDPAD can help visually impaired people in two paramount use cases: touch-based learning of symbolic content at school age; orientation and mobility skills indoor and outdoor.nBLINDPAD will be a personal, portable and cheap solution to improve knowledge and independence, thus increasing chances of employment, of social inclusion and, ultimately, of a better quality of life.