Title :
Trinetra: Assistive Technologies for Grocery Shopping for the Blind
Author :
Lanigan, Patrick E. ; Paulos, Aaron M. ; Williams, Andrew W. ; Rossi, Dan ; Narasimhan, Priya
Author_Institution :
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Abstract :
Trinetra aims for cost-effective, assistive technologies to provide an independent grocery-shopping experience for the blind by leveraging barcodes and networking diverse embedded COTS devices.
Keywords :
handicapped aids; user interfaces; Trinetra; assistive technologies; blind; grocery shopping; Bluetooth; Cellular phones; Entropy; Hardware; Instruments; Investments; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Relays; Speech synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Wearable Computers, 2006 10th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Montreux
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0597-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1550-4816
DOI :
10.1109/ISWC.2006.286369