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The white cane is the single most important tool for blind people to orientate themselves in their immediate environment. Our
basic idea is to make the white cane a connected device which can act as an interface to the urban environment and to the users
smartphone. The goal is to oer a seamless experience while walking/navigating through the city. The interface has to be
minimally invasive and does not conict too much with their senses, so that users can use their senses where they are needed
most.
The grip-interface itself can be screwed to a white canes stick to turn it a modular system, where dierent versions of the
interface could be used for dierent settings. Also, the visually impaired who are not always relying on white canes to walk could
use the interface without the stick mounted to the grip.
Easily locate points of interest both indoors and outdoors by triggering the beacon to sound out the name of the location directly
from the white canes grip - allowing to quickly tell its direction and distance. As you approach each beacon, the grip pulses
vibrations of dierent lengths to give accurate distance feedback to the beacon.
Control the popular BlindSquare (http://blindsquare.com/) iPhone App directly from the white canes grip without the need to pull
it out of your pocket. As you travel and discover new areas, you have realtime and context-specic access to descriptions of the
environment, points of interest, and street intersections.
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