WatVision
Empowering blind and visually impaired people to use any touch screen
Fourth Year Design Project — Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo
- Computer Vision
- Android
- Embedded
WatVision aims to empower every blind or visually impaired person to use any touch screen. It was my Fourth Year Design Project for my Mechatronics Engineering degree at the University of Waterloo.
The system is made up of an app and a ring that you wear on your finger. You run the app and point the camera at the touch screen you want to use. The app tells you when it has seen and understood the screen. From there, you move the finger wearing the ring around the screen and it reads out whatever is underneath your finger.
Recognition
The project won the national James Dyson Award for all of Canada, the General Motors Innovation Award, and second place in the People’s Choice Award.