Can iBeacons Be Used To Help The Visually Impaired Navigate Public Transport? - 視覚障害者のためのiBeacon活用
「iBeaconsは視覚障害者が移動し公共交通機関を支援するために使用することができますか？」
動的にその位置をマッピングすることにより、視覚障害者個人が公共交通機関をナビゲートするために用いることができ、ステーションを通過して、アプリを経由して列車にそれらを指示するためにオーディオキューを提供する。
London-based digital design studio ustwo is working on a project with the Royal London Society for Blind People (RLSB) to determine whether iBeacons/Bluetooth Low Energy beacon technology can be used to help visually impaired individuals navigate public transport by mapping their location dynamically and providing audio cues to direct them through stations and onto trains via an app.
The project is very much a work in progress at this point, with ustwo having built a prototype to prove the concept and brought the RLSB in to test it. The basic idea is that once the visually impaired user enters a public transport terminal where iBeacons (or similar BLE tech) have been deployed and opens the app (called wayfindr), their location can be determined via trilateration, based on pings from the nearest iBeacons, and mapped on their device — and then directions provided through bone conducting earphones.
(via http://3novices.blogspot.jp/2014/08/can-ibeacons-be-used-to-help-visually.html)
動的にその位置をマッピングすることにより、視覚障害者個人が公共交通機関をナビゲートするために用いることができ、ステーションを通過して、アプリを経由して列車にそれらを指示するためにオーディオキューを提供する。
London-based digital design studio ustwo is working on a project with the Royal London Society for Blind People (RLSB) to determine whether iBeacons/Bluetooth Low Energy beacon technology can be used to help visually impaired individuals navigate public transport by mapping their location dynamically and providing audio cues to direct them through stations and onto trains via an app.
The project is very much a work in progress at this point, with ustwo having built a prototype to prove the concept and brought the RLSB in to test it. The basic idea is that once the visually impaired user enters a public transport terminal where iBeacons (or similar BLE tech) have been deployed and opens the app (called wayfindr), their location can be determined via trilateration, based on pings from the nearest iBeacons, and mapped on their device — and then directions provided through bone conducting earphones.
(via http://3novices.blogspot.jp/2014/08/can-ibeacons-be-used-to-help-visually.html)
