- Country
- Finland
- Scope of application
- Assistive products and technologies
- Type of organisation
- Company
- Organisation responsible
- Blind Square
BlindSquare is a smartphone app that makes use of the latest features available in smartphones to aid the blind and visually impaired with orientation and mobility.
It determines the user’s location using an iOS-device’s GPS capabilities and looks up information about the environment on Foursquare and Open Street Map. Employing unique algorithms, it will then ascertain the information most useful to the user and speak it in a clear, synthetic voice. It can for example be used to find the most popular café within a 200 meter radius or to locate the nearest post office or the library. Shaking the device will cause BlindSquare to announce the current address, as well as information about the location of the nearest street intersection and venues around.
BlindSquare can track the user’s destination and periodically announce the distance and direction while traveling. It can also be used to mark locations so they can be found more easily later on. It also possesses filters letting the user limit the amount of spoken information.
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