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Real time bus Info on your phone

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Wouldn't it be great if blind and vision impaired people could have an easy way of working out bus routes, and also find relevant 'up to the minute' transport information? Imagine being able to do this in a city your have never been to before, wouldn't it make getting around so much easier?

We are working with a group of partners on developing an accessible application that we think will do just that and also have it delivered straight to your mobile phone!

Developers from the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) based in the Waterford Institute of Technology, along with the Interaction Design Centre research group in the University of Limerick, and Dublin Bus are collaborating this project.

We aim to deliver this much needed information in a way that can be accessed by everyone using the mobile phone technologies that are widely used today.

Mobile Phones are becoming increasingly sophisticated and allow the user to perform a broad variety of tasks. We have recently seen a new prototype of the application, and it looks very promising.