BLaDE
BLaDE (Barcode Localization and Decoding Engine) is an Android smartphone app designed to enable a blind or visually impaired user find and read product barcodes. The primary innovation of BLaDE, relative to most commercially available smartphone apps for reading barcodes, is that it provides real-time audio feedback to help visually impaired users find a barcode, which is a prerequisite to being able to read it.
Link to BLaDE software download: http://legacy.ski.org/Rehab/Coughlan_lab/BLaDE/
Click here for YouTube video demo of BLaDE in action.
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Journal Articles
. (2013). S-K Smartphone Barcode Reader for the Blind. Journal On Technology And Persons With Disabilities, 1.
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Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
Read MoreThe Center's research goal is to develop and apply new scientific knowledge and practical, cost-effective devices to better understand and address the real-world problems of blind, visually impaired, and deaf-blind consumers
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Dr. Coughlan's Bar Code Reader, BLaDE, Featured in Scientific American
Work by Drs. James Coughlan and Ender Tekin on bar code readers as an accessibility tool is discussed in Scientific American.
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