The Electronic Guide (Dog)

Well after deep thinking and playing with our original idea we decided to leave it and pursue another idea, an electronic guider for the blind for particular use in highly popular, busy locations where guide dogs users have to be further assisted (by humans), such as in supermarkets (where dogs can't understand what you want, nor work out/know the layout of the store to help you).

We have plenty ideas for uses and features to incorporate into the device, along with design ideas but as we are not blind we are not too confident in deciding what device design/operating method would be beneficial in this situation, therefore we are to ask a blind friend of a team member on how this device could be best suited to blind users. We also plan to look through RNIB publications and possibly ask the RNIB themselves on what would be the best design approach for such a device.

The next few posts from here will explain its features and over the next few days we plan to look into its design further. For now, I will leave you with the name of the idea, Via, Visually impaired assistance.