Analyzing Stress Situations for Blind People

Abstract

Detecting stress in the daily life of blind people is a challenging task. In this context, our work focuses on the analysis and detection of stress in the daily life of blind people. In this paper, we present a major step related to data collection in order to detect physiological signs of stress using a network of sensors implemented on a white cane. We present an overview of our system which final objective is to identify the situations that cause stress and predict them in order to assist the blind person with navigation directions along his walking path. The goal of these directions is to anticipate and avoid stress situations.