Engineering Details of a Smartglasses Application for Users with Visual Impairments

Abstract

People with visual impairments encounter many challenges in their everyday life, such as reading text and street signs, shopping, driving, or recognizing facial expressions. Smartglasses applications can assist with all of these tasks. In this paper, we present the technical details of a smartglasses application for users with visual impairments that implements assistive features controlled via voice input commands. We specify the design requirements of our application, which we implement and demonstrate for the Vuzix Blade smartglasses.