SOCIAL DISTANCING MOBILE APPLICATION FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE

The use of mobile applications is becoming very popular nowadays and it has become
a necessity for everyone even people who are having sighted disabilities are using mobile
application to ease daily routine / life. Early year of 2020, outbreak of Covid-19 had happened
and people was totally relying on smartphones and mobile application during this New Norma.
Also, there are also applications that have been specially developed for Covid-19 purpose.
However, mobile application for social distancing are not given priority, especially for sighted
disabilities that needs the application to protect themselves from the infection. Social distance
rules can be difficult to follow by the visually impaired people and they are facing the challenge
to keep their distance of 1-2 meters between other people due to Covid-19. Hence, the main
objective of this project is to discover the type of features that give better facilities for visually
impaired people to use the application. The application will provide social distancing detector
that will detect the distance of 1-2 meters of the user with object (people). The research will
cover some of the mobile application for Covid-19 purpose, social distancing and also features
to develop mobile application for visually impaired people.