Award
National Eye Institute 1R61EY037504-01
VisionWay: Accessibility-aware Path Selection for Wayfinding
Recipient
Ohio State University
Award Amount
$631,137.00
Ceiling
$631,137.00
Awarded
August 05, 2025
Identifier
1R61EY037504-01
Award to Ohio State University to develop VisionWay, a wayfinding tool for visually impaired individuals that assesses sidewalk accessibility and provides multimodal feedback for navigation.
Description
Development of a mobile live, local, outside map framework called VisionWay, customized for People with Visual Impairment (PVI) as a wayfinding tool to analyze and choose accessible paths to destinations.