AÑO
2019
CATEGORÍA
Comunidad
OBJETIVOS
Educación de calidad
PAL. CLAVE
wearable technology, Disability , access to information
PAÍS
Australia
CRÉDITOS
Augmented Human Lab
LINK
http://www.ahlab.org/project/fingerreader
FingerReader
giving the visually impaired the ability to access information anywhere
FingerReader is a wearable device that reads printed text out loud, giving the visually impaired the ability to access information anywhere. The system is based on a small camera that the user directs toward a text. FingerReader scans the text and provides feedback — either through touch or sound — that guides the user’s finger along a line of words, while computer vision algorithms generate the corresponding audio in real time. The effect is a kind of translation, in which whatever the user’s finger ‘sees’ is instantaneously rendered into sound.