Zoo Atlanta has introduced the new AI-powered Animal Assistant to help visitors find and learn about its animals. The Animal Assistant was built by conversational AI developer Satisfi Labs, which plans to expand the platform to other zoos and aquariums around the country.
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Company develops illumie for blind and visually impaired people to navigate
illumie is a project out of Europe and ran through Sopra Steria, a software developer. It was part of the House of Creative Denmark at South By Southwest in Austin last week. The event focused on Danish creators in film, technology and other platforms.
UArizona develops new navigational tool for blind and partially sighted travellers
Those who are visually impaired may have a new navigational tool thanks to a collaboration at the University of Arizona.
Sault Transit partners with CNIB to implement accessibility app
A new app is now available in Sault Ste. Marie to help people who are blind or have vision loss navigate the transit system.
GoodMaps providing accessible indoor navigation at CSUN 2022
GoodMaps will be providing accessible indoor navigation in the Anaheim Marriott for the CSUN conference, March 15-18!
Exhibits open to registered attendees at 4 PM on Tuesday the 15th and open to the public Wednesday 16th – Friday the 18th. Navigate the conference using GoodMaps Explore on IOS or Android. This is a golden opportunity to see if indoor navigation is something you would like to have in a building or transit facility near you. GoodMaps works with a variety of building types including corporate offices, museums, stadiums, hospitals, universities, and more.
New app helps identify accessibility barriers at public sites
A new mobile application could be the secret to fixing accessibility problems in publicly funded institutions, according to the Laval disability rights group ROPPHL.
Edmonton Airport adds accessibility services for passengers
Edmonton International Airport (EIA) has teamed up with Aira, an online service that provides live, real-time assistance to people with visual impairments. EIA is now part of the Aira Airport Network and a designated facility within the Aira online app for users. When a passenger who is visually impaired arrives at EIA they can use this app to call up a live agent who will guide them through the airport by using the camera in a smartphone. The agent can assist in reading information for passengers as well as navigation through the airport and even support safety by encouraging physical distancing from other people where possible. The agent and Aira now have detailed information and maps of EIA, including the ability to determine where a user is inside the airport to help guide them. According to the Canadian Council for the Blind and results in its 2021 report, there are approximately 124,000 Albertans who have mild to severe vision loss.
This haptic feedback sleeve and goggles allow blind people to ‘see’ with their arm
Two researchers with the Center for Digital Technology and Management, Technical University of Munich, have developed a haptic feedback sleeve and goggle system that allows blind people to partially “see” with the skin on their arm. Manuel Zahn and Armaghan Ahmad Khan published a paper describing their sleeve and goggle system on the arXiv preprint server.
How to Use Walking Steadiness to Prevent Falls on iOS 15
Important: Walking Steadiness works on iPhones 8 and newer running iOS 15 or later. It’s also important to remember that Walking Steadiness metrics can’t prevent falls altogether, but they do provide helpful data to allow you to keep track of risk factors and movement patterns related to fall risk.
world’s first AI copilot brings autonomous driving features for blind and visually impaired people
A Swiss company biped is pushing the field of assistive devices to the next era, bringing together cutting-edge AI technologies and the most intuitive feedback on the market.
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