Hello Navi

Every middle school has traffic jams between classes. The sound of rushing students fills the air for a full four minutes. Rushing, bumping, and pushing are hurdles every student must jump over to get to class on time. These challenges are placed twice as higher for the visually-impaired. Suddenly the world can become an unpredictable obstacle course (a noisy one at that) to people with this handicap and they must rely on other techniques to accomplish life’s daily activities.

Hello Navi is a user-friendly application designed to assist the indoor navigation process – in a very unique way. Hello Navi guides and dramatically empowers the campus experience for these twice-exceptional students – giving campus orientation a whole new meaning. A mobility specialist can spend weeks before the start of the school year training a visually-impaired student spatial awareness, location and protective techniques to navigate school hallways. Many hours are spent on teaching the visually-impaired student where the new walls are going to lead.

Hello Navi provides a visually-impaired student a technological way to access campus wings, classrooms, bathrooms, gym and other parts of campus just by speaking into their phone. A mobility specialist can set up various paths from different locations on campus for a student to later use to move about the school campus. The student talks into the device and requests help navigating to and from particular locations. Hello Navi cuts training time in half!

Modern technological advances can allow Hello Navi to open invisible doors that were once thought permanently shut. It will allow blind students to reach their highest level of independence yet through different techniques. With Hello Havi students with this handicap can keep beating the odds and stay connected just like every other student on a school campus. Let us say Hello, take you by the arm digitally, and welcome you in.