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A recent review of electronic aids for the blind (7) showed how little progress toward a widely usable electronic aid for mobility had been made over a period of 25 years. The range of devices of widely varying technology, information gathering capacity, and market price shows that engineers have not been idle, but somehow have failed to reach their goal--that of providing the blind traveler with a highly acceptable electronic aid to spatial perception. That is, an aid which can be obtained readily by individuals generally with limited income, an aid which they would freely choose to use in order to get about in their daily lives or relate more effectively to their immediate environment.
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Kay, L. (1985). Sensory AIDS to Spatial Perception for Blind Persons: Their Design and Evaluation. In: Warren, D.H., Strelow, E.R. (eds) Electronic Spatial Sensing for the Blind. NATO ASI Series, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1400-6_7
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