Open AccessRFID AND VIRTUAL REALITY TEST SETUP FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Author(s) -
Ingmar Bešić,
Herzegovina,
Zikrija Avdagić,
Kerim Hodžić
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta electrotechnica et informatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1338-3957
pISSN - 1335-8243
DOI - 10.15546/aeei-2021-0001
Subject(s) - visually impaired , visual impairment , virtual reality , computer science , visualization , human–computer interaction , computer vision , test (biology) , population , assistive technology , artificial intelligence , psychology , medicine , paleontology , environmental health , psychiatry , biology
Visual impairments often pose serious restrictions on a visually impaired person and there is a considerable number of persons, especially among aging population, which depend on assistive technology to sustain their quality of life. Development and testing of assistive technology for visually impaired requires gathering information and conducting studies on both healthy and visually impaired individuals in a controlled environment. We propose test setup for visually impaired persons by creating RFID based assistive environment – Visual Impairment Friendly RFID Room. The test setup can be used to evaluate RFID object localization and its use by visually impaired persons. To certain extent every impairment has individual characteristics as different individuals may better respond to different subsets of visual information. We use virtual reality prototype to both simulate visual impairment and map full visual information to the subset that visually impaired person can perceive. Time-domain color mapping real-time image processing is used to evaluate the virtual reality prototype targeting color vision deficiency.