Contribution of Augmented Reality Solutions to Assist Visually Impaired People in Their Mobility.
Résumé
Nowadays, the difficulties faced by visually impaired in their everyday life are not yet well identified. Representative patients have been questioned during an immersion study in a re-adaptation clinic. During experiments and interviews, we have analyzed how professionals assist their patients to learn, to adapt their technics, or yet to interpret the surroundings. This is essential to be connected to the ground truth of such augmented reality devices. Objectively, without any objective study coupled with interactions with professionals who prescribe aids for visually impaired, none augmented reality eyewear solution can be developed in a mobility context. And taking advantage of the progress of new embedded systems, augmented reality eyewear solution should be helpful for elderly and visually impaired people. First experiments and results demonstrate the interest to progress in this direction for helpful solutions adapted and easily adaptable according to the diseases of patients in their mobility.