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2. PURPOSE
The purpose of this study is to discuss the development of Android-based intelligent
software Assistant application for visually impaired or blind people. The application is
intended to help people with visual limitations to access various Android features.
The visually impaired or blind people face many challenges daily in communicating with
the world around them. They have to depend on their sighted colleagues/friends for making a
phone call and accessing other mobile functionalities. This system is a voice recognizing
application for mobile phones that allow access to most of the functionalities of the phone
and make it possible for visually impaired or blind people to connect with society. The
sighted people with limited reading ability can also use this application if they are involved in
activities that prevent them from reading.
The goal of this project is to develop voice assistant application that can be used by
visually impaired persons to use basic functionalities of android phone. The convenience of
being able to use android as normal peoples do, so convenience is one of the basic objectives
of this application.
The key goals are – assisting the visually impaired person to perform different tasks, help
to read documents, messages, notes etc. This application has implications for the society,
especially those with eyesight issues can be so much more productive and independent. This
can reduce the social burden in society.
The System is only used for visually impaired or blind people, hence there are no
Credentials to make it very easy and reliable.
3. SURVEY OF TECHNOLOGIES
Following are some existing systems for visually impaired persons:
The Android Application Sandbox, which isolates your app data and code execution
from other apps.
An application framework with robust implementations of common security
functionality such as cryptography, permissions, and secure IPC.
Technologies like ASLR, NX, ProPolice, safe_iop, OpenBSD dlmalloc, OpenBSD
calloc, and Linux mmap_min_addr to mitigate risks associated with common memory
management errors.
An encrypted file system that can be enabled to protect data on lost or stolen devices.
User-granted permissions to restrict access to system features and user data.
Application-defined permissions to control application data on a per-app basis.
It is important that you be familiar with the Android security best practices in this
document. Following these practices as general coding habits reduce the likelihood of
inadvertently introducing security issues that adversely affect your users.
5. FIGURES
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