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Feel the View

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Feel the View is a prototype of an automotive imaging system designed to provide passengers who are blind or visually impaired with a way to experience the passing landscape through touch and sound. This rectangular-shaped device has to be positioned along the top of one of the car’s backseat windows. When the passenger presses the textured button located on the device’s center, the unit’s built-in camera snaps a picture of the outside scenery. The prototype then converts the captured frame into a high-contrast monochrome image and reproduces it on the car window using LEDs. When the passenger drags his or her fingers across the glass, each of the different shades of gray depicting the captured image will vibrate at a different intensity - 255 in all. This way, the passenger can visualize a part of the passing landscape in his or her mind’s eye by feeling the depicted image. In addition to providing haptic feedback, Feel the View provides audio feedback as well. An integrated voice interface connected to the car’s audio system will provide a brief description of the captured image, offering the passenger with context (e.g., “snowy mountain”) of what he or she is touching.

Feel the View is a prototype of Ford’s Italian division and its local agency, GTB Rome.

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05/14/2018
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