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Research and Innovation
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- The Archimedes Project: The Archimedes Project is not any specific project but a group of individuals
committed to making information technology available to all people, regardless
of abilities, needs, preferences, and culture.
- Computer GRaphics Access for Blind people through a haptic virtual environment: The GRAB project has allowed the development of a new Haptic & Audio Virtual Environment to allow blind and visually impaired persons to have access to the three-dimensional graphic computer world through the senses of touch and hearing.
- FP5 project achieves world breakthrough in treating blindness:
A project financed under the EU's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) has successfully developed an electronic implant to allow a blind person to recover some vision.
- Guide Dogs for the Blind: Dog-related Research and Development
- Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB)
JVIB is the premier international, interdisciplinary journal of record on blindness and visual impairment that publishes scholarship and information and serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas, airing of controversies, and discussion of issues. JVIB is a monthly publication that includes research articles, as well as shorter pieces of interest to practitioners and extensive news coverage about the field of visual impairment.
- Mathematics Access
- Mobile OCR, Face and Object Recognition for the Blind The main goal of The vOICe vision technology is to offer an equivalent of "raw" visual input to blind people, via complex visual sounds, thus leaving the recognition tasks to the human brain. However, complementary to that it would be useful to have options for automatic recognition through computer vision technology.
- National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute leads the quest to understand the real problems of blindness and to develop innovative education, technologies, products and services that help the world’s blind to achieve independence.
- Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)
- PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
- Research to Prevent Blindness - Explore this Website to learn more about how RPB can help you and how you can help RPB.
- The Smith-Kettlewell Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) develops new technology and methods for understanding, assessment and rehabilitation of blindness and visual impairment. Our target population consists of persons who are blind, visually impaired, and deaf-blind.
- Science Access Project Homepage at Oregon State University.
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