University of California, San Diego

GroZi—A Grocery Shopping Assistant for the Visually Impaired

 

Our Spring 2009 team includes:

 

Faculty:

Serge Belongie

 

Researchers:

John Miller (Calit2, NFB)

 

Tutor:

Hourieh Fakourfar

 

Graduate Students:

Tess Winlock

 

Undergraduate Students:

Haptics Team:

Grace Foo

Steve Matsusaka

Jasmine' Nourblin

Amir Shirkhani

Michael Tran

Jeff Wurzbach

Mouse Clicker Team:

Jen Chueh

Bonnie Han

Amalia Prada

Amir Shirkhani

 

Special Collaboration:

Peter Faymonville

 

Goal:

        Our group this quarter was divided into two teams: Haptics and Mouse Clicker. The Haptic team improves on the haptic vibrating device that directs the blind person to reach the desired object. The Mouse Clicker team creates a Java program that records coordinates clicked by mouse on images and saves them into a text file to allow visually impaired software engineers to discuss the images with their colleagues.

 

 

 

Photos:

John, the representative from NFB, is simulating shopping for cup noodles with our Haptic device.
The simulation board has many cup noodle products with velcros attached on the back arranged as if they were on the shelf in grocery stores. The device is simulated by a team member acting as the device who knocks faster on a paper cup as John's hand gets closer to the product of focus.

 

 

 

The group is having a demostration of the shoulder piece model that will be used to hold a webcamera and wiimote that search for the grocery product the user wants.

 

 

 

 

 

Spring 2009

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