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Design of the System for Remote Sighted Guidance of Visually Impaired Pedestrians

A novel navigation system to aid the mobility of visually impaired people was designed and its prototype developed and evaluated. The system integrates a wireless remote vision facility with a positioning and tracking unit based on the GPS and an application of the GIS into a technological platform enabling the remote guidance of visually impaired pedestrians by a sighted human guide. The remote vision facility permits the remote sighted guide to navigate the visually impaired user of the system in the immediate travel environment (micro-navigation), while the integrated GPS and GIS unit facilitates the navigation through the environment on a large scale (macro-navigation). The implementation of the system and the consequent availability of the remote sighted guidance service hold the potential to provide mobility assistance at a comprehensive level comparable to actual sighted guidance. A considerable advantage of remote sighted guidance is that it can offer relative independence of mobility.

Visually Impaired Pedestrians, Navigation, Mobility, Sighted Guidance, Remote Vision, GPS, GIS

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