EMU PlatformEducational Mobile User Platform is a set of teaching tools developed at Mobile Systems Research Labs with cooperation with Training and Educational Centre for Blind and Visually Impaired Children in Owinska. Thanks to this collaboration a set of applications has been developed which aids visually impaired children.With use of the newest computer and audiovisual technology EMU Platform allows to support education and training of children with various eye problems. The teachers receive a set of tools that improve work efficiency regardless of child’s conditions – ranging from light problems like disfigurement of images, through partial atrophy of sight to blindness.

3DSound

This program has been developed for people with the biggest eyesight problems. This applications’ aim is to help them cope with surrounding world. It is done in three stages. First one bases on sound recognition, the second one helps to pick up a desired sound from a mix of sounds. And the last stage teaches to determine location of the sound sources.

DotPaint

This application has been developed in order to introduce visually impaired children to the world of colorful pictures. With the use of newest technologies pupils can express their feelings on virtual canvas. This gives tutors a powerful tool to carefully analyze their pupils’ conditions. Also it allows to track the history of pictures which shows how the healing is progressing and how the child has improved.