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Visually impaired and blind people have major difficulties in locating and communicating with public transport vehicles due to their restriction of vision. They must rely on other people’s help or technical supports. In this paper we show how direct communication with the bus driver via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is possible. A person with visual restriction is able to send and receive messages via an accessible smartphone app directly to the bus driver. With the help of the suggested system traveling with public transport gets easier and the person’s independent mobility is improved.
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This work was funded by the Austrian research funding association (FFG) under the scope of the program Mobility of the Future within the research project Ways4me.
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Krainz, E., Bischof, W., Dornhofer, M., Feiner, J. (2016). Catching the Right Bus - Improvement of Vehicle Communication with Bluetooth Low Energy for Visually Impaired and Blind People. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_2
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