lmmersive Assisting Tool and Application for Visually Impaired People : Audio Frequency Segmentation in producing different rate of vibrations

Jbis project addresses the problems and limitations that the visually impaired
people faced, especially in the area of sports and entertainment. With the advancement
ofiCT, an immersive assisting tools and application is to be developed to fill in the gap
between the impaired people and the society. Other objectives of the project are to
develop an assisting tool and application for the visually impain:d people so that th<jy
can immerse and engage into a specific game of his/her interest, to look into the impact
of using audio as the aid . ..in.representing the 'real~, to experiment on audio
segmentation into different frequencies and tones as a result of different kinds of
vibration as well as to compare and benchmark the studies of this project with related
works. The project will be specifically conducted on football game with the motivation
to continue the facilities. prll¥ided fur- the visually impaired people by the FIF A World
Cup 2010, South Africa. The approach proposed is on audio, video and haptics. But this
project focuses on audio or sound as it is indeed the best element in assisting the visually
impaired people to get immerse and feel just like they are really 'watching' the football
game; Assuming the- football:- match wilt be- in the type of playback video to resolve the
issues of synchronization and noise of live football match, and 11; will then being
extracted to both audio and video file. The main contribution of this project is to
produce the low and high tones and frequencies which will then being used as the input
for various types of vibrations by using Smartphone.