Framework of Gesture for blind people usable at touch mobile phones

Abstract

The world‟s population is comprised of, ot only people who can see, but also those who cannot see. Rarely, we find devices and technological advances that promote the accessibility for the visually impaired. Definitely, fully touch enabled devices are available today, but their primary focus is not making it accessible for the blind people by use of advanced GPS technology, Data Connectivity, Gesture Recognition and Image Recognition. This paper presents the the overall architectural design mobile operating system named Eyedroid and the framework of gesture interaction system for differently-abled people in a mobile device. Gesture input method prototype developed and tested with blind users.Basic usability factors such as easiness of handling, comfort ability easiness of entering text, words per minute were analyzed to measure gestural system performance.