This web application utilizes GPS data and reads addresses and intersections aloud to users. It is developed for people with visual impairment, making it easier for them to know their location during navigation. The team designed two new solutions: They created the “Street Nav” app using her GPS location that lets Darcy know what street, intersection or address she is approaching. The team also created “Street Sight”, a GoPro interface that takes photos to her phone every 2-3 seconds so she can discretely zoom in on street signs, car plates, bus schedules - and anything else she would like to get a better look at.
She has difficulty reading street signs while navigating. She wants to be able to know where she is while walking through the streets to a specific location.
Darcy Green has her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, works at the University of Chicago as a Regulatory Manager, is a runner and world traveler. Diagnosed at the age of 3 with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, an autoimmune disease that causes the body to attack itself - she is blind in one eye and vision impaired in the other. When it comes to exploring new places, Darcy finds that she either doesn’t go to a place she isn’t familiar with, plans everything out in advance, or ends up in a very anxious situation on street corner trying to figure out where she is.
An open-source assistive technology project shared free by TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers.
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