Eye Care You: Voice Guidance Application Using Social Robot for Visually Impaired People

TL;DR

This paper presents a social robot-based voice guidance mobile application designed to assist visually impaired individuals with daily tasks, safety, and social interaction, integrating multiple functions for improved independence.

Contribution

The study introduces a comprehensive voice-controlled mobile app tailored for visually impaired users, combining safety, social, and daily activity features with caregiver support.

Findings

The application enables immediate photo capture for safety.

It provides mood enhancement through music and reading.

Caregiver website facilitates user monitoring.

Abstract

In the study, the device of social robot was designed for visually impaired users, and along with a mobile application for provide functions to assist their lives. Both physical and mental conditions of visually impaired users are considered, and the mobile application provides functions: photo record, mood lift, greeting guest and today highlight. The application was designed for visually impaired users, and uses voice control to provide a friendly interface. Photo record function allows visually impaired users to capture image immediately when they encounter danger situations. Mood lift function accompanies visually impaired users by asking questions, playing music and reading articles. Greeting guest function answers to the visitors for the inconvenient physical condition of visually impaired users. In addition, today highlight function read news including weather forecast, daily horoscopes and daily reminder for visually impaired users. Multiple tools were adopted for developing the mobile application, and a website was developed for caregivers to check statues of visually impaired users and for marketing of the application.