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Graduate student Iwan Ulrich
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The GuideCane
Guidance Device for the Blind
in the News

The GuideCane project has enjoyed significant coverage in the news media since the original University of Michigan press release on August 1st, 1997. Below is a list of reports, most of which are available at this site. To view an available news report click the appropriate button. Please note the different colors of the buttons, which have the following meaning:

 
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Special coverage of the
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Published 6/13/98
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Published 6/26/98

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Aired 6/11/98

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Aired 6/6/98

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Pubklished in "The University Record," 8/13/97

Published 12/97
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Published 8/11/97
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Aired 9/12/97,  1:45 p.m.
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Published 11/97
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Show #118 Aired 9/18/98
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In preparation
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Expected early '99
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Published 9/18/97

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Published 11/17/97
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Edited report, 8/12/97
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Published 2/98
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Life interview, 8/28/97
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Life interview, 4/30/98

 
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We gratefully acknowledge the generous funding of the project provided by the Whitaker Foundation.

Graduate and Undergraduate Students involved in the GuideCane project

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Jaebum Son

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Ivy Zhou

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Jennifer Marie Roush

Links to other sites for the visually impaired (under construction)

Letter of support from Carroll L. Jackson, Executive Director of the Upshaw Institute for the Blind, Detroit

Teaching Orientation and Mobility to Blind Children

Peter Meijer's "The vOICe -- Seeing with your ears!"

The GuideCane is protected under U.S. patent #5,687,136: "User-Driven Active Guidance System," issued November 11, 1997. (Rights Assigned to the University of Michigan).

This page last updated on 12/19/98 by Johann Borenstein
(GuideCane Inventor and Project Director)
The University of Michigan
Dept. of Mech. Eng. and Applied Mechanics
Advanced Technologies Lab
1101 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2110

Please direct your questions and comment to johannb@umich.edu

 

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