Augmented Reality as a Tool to Support the Inclusion of Colorblind People

Abstract

Color blindness is a condition that affects the cones in the eyes, it can be congenital or acquired and is considered a medium disability that affects about 8.5% of the world population and it occurs in children, who have special difficulties to the newly enter an educational environment with materials developed for people with normal vision, this work focuses on the development one technology, to allow people with a visual disability known as color blindness, to improve their daily activities which in turn leads to a better inclusion in the social and educational environment. To help the inclusion of these people an application was made that allows an identification of the type of condition of the user through the Ishihara test, which worked with two versions, the traditional and a variation to work with children, and subsequently the result It is taken into account to work with another Augmented Reality application which first uses an identification of the colors of an image through a color classification system, for this different algorithms were implemented one with automatic programming and another with a particle swarm optimization (PSO), once the algorithm identifies the colors it modifies them in real time to a spectrum of colors that if distinguishable by the student but at the same time identifies the centroids of the objects and labels them in real time with the real color, two forms were used for labeling, the word with the color and a color code ColorADD proposed or by Neiva in 2008.