Four students develop software solution for visually impaired.
That’s a headline out of India yesterday. It’s a heart-warming story and here are some extracts:
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.
Congratulations to them and to Microsoft for encouraging such worthy causes.
Tip of the Hat: Kevin C. Tofel
Tags: Mobile, visually impaired
