Proceedings of: Workshop on Improving Building Design for Persons with Low Vision

Audible Information Systems (slide 14)

We can add more audible information. This is a quick graphic of a talking signage system. There’s more research that could be done in adding talking signage. We were working, talking to the U of M folks about – they’re developing a 2-D bar-code system that would go with a hand-held. A low-vision person would wave the hand-held piece back and forth. It would pick up that bar code.

There’s a distance delay of about three feet right now, so you’re actually [be] three feet past the sign before it transmits to a Blue Tooth phone or earpiece that tells you what that sign was that you just passed and what it says. And you can tell it that you want more information.

There’s technology coming out that can be incorporated in specific instances to help you navigate –3-D maps, hand-held.