AI Navigation Glasses
Assistive vision should expand agency—not replace judgment.
The project began as a low-cost hardware effort for visually impaired users: recognizing traffic lights and nearby obstacles, then turning those observations into restrained voice guidance.
Earlier community work extended across three communities and included hands-on sessions teaching visually impaired older adults how to assemble and maintain the devices—moving the idea from a prototype someone could watch to a system a community could understand.
Earlier workHardware + community teachingLow-cost assembly, maintenance, and hands-on use across three communities.
Current public prototypeSafety + privacy redesignConfidence-aware alerts, authenticated ingestion, replayable demos, and explicit limitations.
03communities reached in the earlier program
13automated tests in the current safety prototype
0raw video, audio, or location fields retained in event history
The current public redesign is deliberately more cautious: low-confidence detections never become action commands, repeated alerts are suppressed, and the software is presented as a research prototype—not a certified mobility aid or a replacement for a cane, guide dog, traffic rules, or user judgment.
Open the safety-conscious prototype ↗Community reach and teaching activity are documented in project and application records retained in the private evidence library.
