EyeSight

EyeSight Logo
EyeSight UI

Inspiration

A while ago on TikTok, we saw a video of a vision-impaired person describing how she identified items using a pen-like device that announced the name of the item. This inspired us to create a mobile app that has the same functionality at a more cost-effective and accessible price point.

What it does

EyeSight allows users to ASSIGN labels to NFC Tag stickers, SCAN them, and have their iOS device announce that label back to them.

How we built it

We built EyeSight using swiftUI in XCode, relying on iOS Automation for the NFC scanning and writing functionality.

Challenges we ran into

NFC Capabilities were unavailable on our version of xCode, so we were unable to easily implement the writing and scanning features of Eyesight using the resources available online.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This was our first endeavor into developing with SwiftUI, but we managed to create a working prototype by supplementing the NFC capabilities with Automation! For a two-person team working remotely, we are very proud of our high production value demo video!

What we learned

We learned how to implement Core NFC via UIKit embedded in SwiftUI as well as NFC Capabilities (although we were unable to directly test it).

What's next for EyeSight

With continued development, we hope to increase functionality, such as assigning voice labels to tags, and bring EyeSight to other platforms, such as Android.

Acknowledgements

We'd like to thank the HtN team for organizing this amazing experience! We truly appreciated the opportunity to learn from the mentors and sponsors during Gear Up week as well as the events on the weekend!

Built With

Submitted to

Hack the North 2021

Created by

I worked on the backend for this project. I developed the iPhone app utilizing NFC tags. This was my first time developing an app that interacts with the real world, and it was an amazing experience learning how to incorporate NFC technology into iOS development. I hope this app allows people with visual impairments to be more independent and self sufficient.

Jaskirat Singh
The idea for EyeSight sprang to me and I knew I had to turn it into a real thing, so I developed the SwiftUI elements of the app, including the UI buttons. This was my first time using SwiftUI, and I certainly learned a lot about it! I hope our app increases accessibility at a lower price-point for our users to help them in their day-to-day.

Philip Zhu