SeeBot

SeeBot here!

It’s intended to help people with visual impairment and blindness to navigate in outdoor environments. Together with white canes, SeeBot wants to help people find the way, stay away from static and moving objects, and avoid accidents.

Note: SeeBot has not yet figured out how to support people with both hearing loss and vision loss. Let’s help it figure out!

Why the name SeeBot

It’s computer vision (See) with machine learning to provide navigation assistance (Bot).

Disclaimer: However, SeeBot as a name is up to change. If you search “SeeBot”, you will find out the name is used by some other products, though none has the same purpose. If you have any suggestion for the name, feel free to let me know.

The backstory of SeeBot

SeeBot is an idea I studied for my master’s thesis in human-computer interaction (HCI). For thesis work, I did feasibility study for using machine learning in computer vision with a group of users who have vision loss.

For a summary of the study and findings, see case 1 of my portfolio.

Come and build SeeBot together

The technology behind SeeBot is too complex for me to pull together by myself, at least not in a foreseeable future. Given that safe and independent wayfinding is needed for the mobility of people with vision loss, I would like to invite you to build SeeBot together so that it can be useful for people sooner than later.

Let’s start working for people with vision loss in outdoor navigation, and later for those with both vision and hearing loss.

Learn more in Getting to know SeeBot.

What to build

Learn more in SeeBot wiki, which is still in the baking.

How to contribute

So you’re in?

Feel free to reach out by email or leave a message in the repo discussion.