Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired and Blind People [Mixed media product]

Equal accessibility to public places and services is now required by law in many countries. For the vision-impaired, specialised technology often can provide a fuller enjoyment of the facilities of society, from large scale meetings and public entertainments to reading a book or making music. This volume explores the engineering and design principles and techniques used in assistive technology for blind and vision-impaired people. This book maintains the currency of knowledge for engineers and health workers who develop devices and services for people with sight loss, and is an excellent source of reference for students of assistive technology and rehabilitation.

For the vision-impaired, specialised technology can provide a fuller enjoyment of the facilities of society, from public meetings and entertainments to reading a book or making music. This volume explores engineering and design of assistive technology for blind and vision-impaired people.

Equal accessibility to public places and services is now required by law in many countries. In the case of the vision-impaired, it is often the use of specialised technology which can provide them with a fuller enjoyment of all the facilities of society from large scale meetings and public entertainments to the more personal level of reading a book or making music. In this volume the engineering and design principles and techniques used in assistive technology for blind and vision-impaired people are explained.

Features:

instruction in the physiology of the human visual system and methods of measuring visual ability;

explanation of many devices designed for every-day living in terms of generic electrical engineering principles;

sections of practical projects and investigations which will give the reader ideas for student work and for self teaching;