By News-Medical
Publication Date: 2025-11-26 01:26:00
Systems and applications that help visually impaired people navigate their environments have undergone rapid development in recent years but still have room for growth, according to a team of researchers at Penn State University. The team recently combined recommendations from the visually impaired community with artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a new tool that provides support specifically tailored to the needs of visually impaired people.
The tool, known as NaviSense, is a smartphone application that can use real-time spoken prompts to identify items users are looking for and guide users to objects in the environment using the phone’s built-in audio and vibration features. Test users reported an improved experience compared to existing vision options. The team presented the tool and received the Best Audience Choice Poster Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGACCESS ASSETS ’25 conference, held October 26-29 in…
