Media Coverage

• SIMO talks at the A11Y Bytes event in Sydney.
  
  


• Radio interviews with Media Access Australia and Vision Australia
  
  
  • SIMO project interview by Media Access Australia, broadcast - 2RPH & Vision Australia Radio (14-APR-2013)
  • SIMO project interview by Vision Australia, broadcast on Vision Australia Radio
  
  
• Access iQ News-feature article about technology and SIMO


• Media Access Australia feature article about SIMO


• Sydney Morning Herald article about Indoor GPS


• Sydney Morning Herald article about Indoor Mapping


• Mapping the Great Indoors - Shot at the IPIN2012 conference
  
  


• UNSW Engineers magazine, Issue 26, October 2012 (p19)
  
  


• Creating the Future | UNSW Engineering, Published, 8th of June, 2009 (p17)
  
  


• SIMO Project presentation at the UNSW Innovation Awards 2012
  
  


• Introduction to Wi-Fi fingerprinting shot at UNSW
  
  

Useful Links

This section presents a list of useful links related to technology already available to the Blind and Vision Impaired, but also to accessibility in general:

• Smartphones become essential accessories for the blind
  
  


• BrailleTouch Helps Visually Impaired Users
  
  


• Vision Australia Home Page: blindness and low vision services in Australia.
• Vision Australia Radio: Australian radio for the blind and vision impaired.
• Guide Dogs NSW/ACT Home Page: Exists to enhance the independence and safe mobility of people who are blind or vision impaired.
• 2RPH Community Radio: Talking radio for the print handicapped.
• Blind Citizens Australia: the united voice of blind and vision-impaired Australians.
• Tiresias: very useful site, publications and research in AT and links to NGOs and government bodies researching and working in AT.
• Ramsey Stewart Industrial Design: partner of the SIMO project.
• RNIB: the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
• John Gill Technology Ltd: former head of Tiresias and RNIB Scientific Research Unit.
• Tedicore: Telcommunications and Disability consumer representation.
• School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems: partner of the SIMO project.
• Cardiac-EU: advancing research & development in the area of accessible and assistive ICT.
• UCSB Personal Guidance system: group at the University of California working on similar challenges.

Partners

Supporters