7-in-7 | Day 6

Prototyping deeper into forms, prototype for day 06 is related to day 02 prototype where I was using servo motor to navigate vision impaired person from point A to point B. This week I’ve iterated on it to a more feasible solution using gloves embedded with three vibration motors on each hand. These vibration motors will provide haptic feedback to the user and navigate them left and right using vibrations on hand. These three vibration motors will specify the intensity of navigating left or right, the harder the vibration, the more intense is need to turn. Apart from this 3 motors can also indicate different patterns to communicate with user.

The directions will be sent to gloves using user’s mobile phone. It will be having an audio assistant enables app, say a Siri enabled app, that will take text inputs and process them, sending directional commands in return. The position of the person will be calculated using the onboard sensors such as gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, etc.