Budget Amount *help |
¥9,230,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,130,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
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Research Abstract |
Pedestrian navigation system for visually handicapped people to enjoy their daily life such as shopping has been developed. As an end user device, GPS-equipped mobile phone is designed to be utilized. Following features are developed to be added to conventional navigation systems :(1) more precise audio directions to move,(2) easily recognizable directional sounds which are compatible with other sounds/noises encountered in daily lives,(3) precise notification of destination such as a small shop. The results are expected to be applied to practically use in several years.
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