Labrador : protótipo de sistema de apoio a pessoa com deficiência visual

Abstract

Disability means a state in which an individual’s abilities are insufficient compared to the majority of the population. Among all the deficiencies, visual impairment is the one that affects the largest number of people in the world. According to information from the World Health Organization, in 2010, more than 280 million people had some category of visual impairment, with more than 38 million people suffering from total vision loss. According to the most recent IBGE survey, in 2010, there were 528 thousand people in a state of total loss of vision and 6 million people in low vision state in Brazil. Informational reports such as World Report on Disability and Vision suggest there is a growth trend of the number of visually impaired people in the world. Even if it is not possible to recover the vision of those who have lost it severely or completely, new technologies have emerged to improve the accessibility of the visually impaired in daily life. Activities such as locomotion, for example, can become simpler through a tool that assists the disabled person. In view of the above, the present work aims to present the development of a tracking and notification system in an indoor environment. An ideal environment was used for the development of the prototype, where an object was tracked through the identification of colors within a closed and color-controlled environment. By locating the test user’s coordinates, the project enables them to store them and create notifications based on the risk of collision with an object with mapped colors on the platform.