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Achieving blind people autonomous shopping in a supermarket is a real challenge. Without help from another person is very hard or impossible for them to reach to a specific supermarket section and browse through its products. Besides, once there, they cannot identify the products and their features (e.g. price, brand and due date) to decide whether they want to buy them or not. This work presents BlindShopping, an RFID and QR-code based mobile solution to enable accessible shopping for blind people, only demanding inexpensive off-the-shelf technology and limiting the deployment effort from the supermarket.
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López-de-Ipiña, D., Lorido, T., López, U. (2011). Indoor Navigation and Product Recognition for Blind People Assisted Shopping. In: Bravo, J., Hervás, R., Villarreal, V. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. IWAAL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21303-8_5
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