Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired and Blind People

Equal accessibility to public places and services is now required by law in many countries. It is often the use of specialised technology which can provide the vision-impaired with a fuller enjoyment of all the facilities of society. In this volume the engineering and design principles and techniques used in assistive technology for blind and vision-impaired people are explained.

Features: instruction in the physiology of the human visual system and methods of measuring visual abili ...