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 | | Researchers: Pehr Granqvist, Mats.Fredrikson (both at Dept. of Psychology, Uppsala University), Dan Larhammar (Dept. of Neuroscience, Uppsala University), Marcus Larsson (Children´s Hospital), and Sven Valind (Clinical physiology, Malmö General Hospital, both at Lund University). |
 | | Members of the consortium were specialists in technology (the German firm Papenmeier, British Telecommunication Laboratories), informatics (University of Magdeburg, Free University of Berlin), education (University of Birmingham) and psychology (University of Hertfordshire, Uppsala University), or represented an organisation for the blind (Royal National Institute for the Blind, London). |
 | | The aims of the project were to investigate the needs of blind and elderly people concerning orientation during travel, to develop a prototype making independent travel in unfamiliar areas possible for these persons, and to evaluate this prototype used in practice. |
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