Walk Helper for Blind

App adapted for blind users to help them easyer orientate in the physical world.

Walk helper for blind is an application adapted to phones with Android system. The main goal of this program is to help blind users finding their ways in the physical world. By using this program blind users can create routes by selecting necessary places and saving them to the device memory by typing names, which reveals some important information about the place. This app in fact is not a substitution for white cane or guide dog, it's just like an attachment to improve personal independency when travelling.

This orientation tool can become a perfect assistant when someone takes the bus, because if he have saved the necessary stations in his route, then he is able to check which nearest station is in front, which station is behind, what object is on his left or right side. It gives an opportunity to travel by public transport more relaxed and less thinking about how not to miss the required station.

This application can help those who are learning a new route, or maybe for those who had already learned it, but still doubt to do it.

Walk Helper For Blind also can become very useful for those who just got lost. In order to try to go somewhere when blind person is in unknown place, there is a necessity to memorize all long way, because otherwise he would not be able to return. However by using this application and a white cane or guide dog together, the user may have more safe moves. A blind person can just save location from which he wants to move and then is possible to turn back without memorizing turn by turn route.

Main functions:

• Ability to create a routes and save necessary points for future use;

• Compass;

• Look around;

• Moving speed detection;

• Distance between your current location and active point;

• Direction to active point by clock or degrees;

• Auto redirection to point by moving direction.

Please carefully read "Help" section of the app before starting to use it! You will find that section in app's local context menu.