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UC-Santa Cruz: New Apps Will Enable Safer Indoor Navigation for Blind People
October 09, 2024
SANTA CRUZ, California, Oct. 9 (TNSres) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news:

By Emily Cerf

Two new apps will enable blind people to navigate indoor buildings with spoken directions from a smartphone app, providing a safe method of wayfinding where GPS doesn't work.

UC Santa Cruz professor of Computer Science and Engineering Roberto Manduchi has devoted much of his research career to creating accessible technolog . . .

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