Fig. 1: Current wearable assistive devices for blind and partially sighted people.
From: Interactive wearable digital devices for blind and partially sighted people
Current wearable assistive devices that provide multimodal digital information (such as audio descriptions of scenes and braille-to-speech translations) are limited by the need for sequential information output, reliability issues and low-quality image descriptions. These factors pose substantial challenges for blind and partially sighted users. The use of haptic feedback synchronized to the output of large-scale visual language models (LVLMs), multisensory learning and gestural controls might help alleviate these difficulties. Left:Â wrist device, reprinted from ref. 28, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); hand image, reprinted from ref. 174, Springer Nature Limited. Photographs: crisps, mrs/Moment/Gettyimages; Mona Lisa, GL Archive/Alamy Stock Photo.
