Devices and Networking Summit – Demo 4, Cities Unlocked

Jarnail Chudge, Andrei Ermilov, and Brad Cotier, Microsoft

Cities Unlocked is a project that assists people with visual impairment to navigate through urban areas. It uses a bone conducting headset and a mobile phone app to generate audio signals based on the user’s head position, to guide them towards a target. This is a highly collaborative effort between Microsoft and external partners, including UCL. Microsoft Research contributed to the algorithms for the soundscape technology, made the hardware modifications to the headset and designed the user study.