UI computer science professor Kyle Rector is developing a phone application to help visually impaired people walk around a track with help from an AI for accessibility grant from Microsoft.
Kyle Rector said the app uses camera sensors to tell users if they are veering from their lane on a walking track. The app is being developed with help from the Microsoft AI for Accessibility grant in collaboration with researchers at the UI and at the State University of New York-Brockport.
According to the Microsoft website, the grant “harnesses the power of AI to amplify human capability for the more than 1 billion people around the world with a disability.”