Introducing a Stress Management and Navigation System for Blind Individuals

Volume 10, Issue 2, Page No 12-27, 2025

Author’s Name: Youssef Keryakos^*,1 Youssef Bou Issa ¹, Michel Salomon ², Abdallah Makhoul ²

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¹ Ticket lab, Antonine university, Baabda, Lebanon
² Femto-St, Franche-comte university, Besancon, France

^a)whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: youssef.keryakos@ua.edu.lb

Adv. Sci. Technol. Eng. Syst. J. 10(2), 12-27 (2025); DOI: 10.25046/aj100202

Keywords: Stress, Navigation for the blind, Obstacle detection

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Abstract

The most challenging task in daily life of blind individuals is navigating outdoors. In this context, we are introducing and describing a navigation system that will provide two important tasks for blind individuals. Initially, the system will suggest the least stressful route for the blind to navigate among the various possible paths between a starting point and a destination. Finally, the system will provide real-time navigation guidance and real-time obstacle detection. The process to identify the less stressful route begins with the identification of all possible routes then calculating the Index of Difficulty for each Route (IDR), afterwads calculating the index of stress (ISR) based on the IDR for each route, eventually the route with lowest ISR is selected as the least stressful.

Received: 25 September 2024 Revised: 31 January 2025 Accepted: 08 February 2025 Online: 20 March 2025

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Introducing a Stress Management and Navigation System for Blind Individuals