See Far is a digitally enabled adaptive solution supporting ageing workforce with vision deficiencies, an age-related condition, to remain actively involved in professional life, helping them to sustain and renew their work and personal life – related skills and support an independent active and healthy lifestyle. This is a low-cost unobtrusive solution, which ensures the creation of an adaptive smart working and living environment, since it contributes to its four key elements: physical health, ergonomics/environment, technology and management practices.
The See Far solution consists of two main components:
- The See Far smart glasses, that are adapted to the needs of the users and optimize their vision by employing a personalized visual assistant that captures the condition of the eye, detects the problem and provides the appropriate adjustment through the integration of augmented reality technologies.
- The See Far mobile application, which allows monitoring of the central vision evolution and prediction of the risk for the presence of diseases (e.g. diabetes risk, cardiovascular risk). It will capture retinal images, through a digital direct ophthalmoscope attached to the smartphone, analyse them, and estimate the type and the stage of vision impairment, by employing machine learning techniques.
The combination of the output of the See Far mobile application (indicator of the presence of a visual problem, or not), with that of the See Far smart glasses (type of daily visual issues the user has and his/her behaviour), will lead to the provision of suggestions/assistance, through augmented reality, to the user, supporting an independent, active and healthy lifestyle. The suggestions/assistance provided will be adapted to the profile of the user, through the personalised visual recommendation service. A combination of state-of-the-art techniques from the fields of computer vision, augmented reality and artificial intelligence will be employed in order to achieve the challenging objectives of the See Far Project.
