A Mobile Application-Based Learning Aid Developer for Teaching Visually Impaired Students

The process of educating visually impaired and blind (VIB) students is quite complex, from the creation of engaging educational materials to its development as it requires time, skill, and versatility. Current educational materials for the VIB also lack interactivity, which reduces students’ autonomy. This can be solved by providing an unsophisticated mobile APP that can quickly develop tactile learning aids. In this paper, a mobile application is developed to provide an accessible interface that can be used by either the teacher or the student implemented with computer vision, gesture-based inputs, and audio accessibility features with the ability to take pictures and add braille language sent to the database of 3D images for the filtering and printing process as a tactile learning aid. For future development, an additional voice-command system for navigating the user interface and more filter options is considered.