Succor: A product which will help Visually Disabled people to navigate in a workspace by tracking their movement.

Abstract

People who are blind by birth or acquired total blindness in any stage of their life are struggling by facing problems on daily basis. One of the major difficulties they are facing is about mobility in their workspaces. They rely on different sources like help by another person or white canes. But there are some areas in which they are still encountering difficulties like relocation, identifying their surroundings and reaching a desired place. Unfortunately, they are still lacking a trustful source that can instill self-confidence in them to tackle these hurdles while moving around. Hence, they lack opportunities to show their full potential. The research in this project is conducted to learn how blind people move around in their workspace, what problems they face and how they, with the help of other senses, tackle such issues and lastly what they find most difficult in the whole scenario. A small effort is undertaken to provide the people who are blind with an opportunity for an experience that can motivate/encourage them to work and involve them in the activities like a normal person in an office environment. The research is done by studying the socio-demographic factors, understanding the user behavior to interact and learning of new abilities and skills. The main aim of the research is to develop/built a product for the blind people, which will prove to be a constant support to them by giving, live feedback in audio form by tracking their position in their work space.