Aryan Anand

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Developing a Haptic Feedback System for Visually-Impaired Tracking of NBA games

Abstract or project description

Fans experience sporting events using all of their senses, one of the most crucial being sight. Thus, visually-impaired individuals lose a significant amount of sensory info when experiencing a sporting event due to the lack of visual stimuli. In order to solve this problem, we are developing a haptic feedback system to provide visual cues from a basketball game to a visually-impaired user. This system will allow the user to track the location of the ball of a pre-recorded game using a custom-designed haptic board, which works in conjunction with vibratory elements and live TV/radio commentary to help the user monitor and follow the action. Such a design, as a result, will help improve and enrich the fan experience for a visually-impaired user.