E-guia: sistema para prover mobilidade e acessibilidade aos deficientes visuais nos serviços de transportes urbanos

Abstract

The ease of mobility corresponds to the displacement of people in the city due to the complex activities developed there, as constituting an important asset to the quality of life of its inhabitants. For the visually impaired have mobility means improving the quality of life, especially if the poor need to use the transportation system of urban service. Thus, this final paper aims to present a system that looks inclusion of visually impaired people through the union of technology and accessibility. e-Guia is a system that brings information to the visually impaired using urban transport, particularly buses, through the use of mobile devices. For the realization of this project it was necessary to design an architecture that would enable the communication between the user, the bus, and the remote server, which the last one is responsible for receiving the information, and also, by prompting the visually impaired that the desired bus is close to the bus stop. Experiments called field tests were performed in a production environment. At the end of these experiments the architecture was validated, and results showed good performance of the system, indicating that the user was able to know in advance 15-30 seconds at arrival to the nearest bus stop