iShop—Shopping application for visually challenged

Abstract

In the life of visually challenged people shopping is one of the greatest challenges. From getting around the supermarket to paying the bill at the cashier they need to rely on someone else. They never get a chance to shop on their own. Whether the person uses a cane, a seeing-eye dog or other sight tools, shopping is still a painstaking chore for them. This paper presents iShop - a complete mobile solution for the above mentioned problem of visually challenged people. iShop is developed in order to address the issues that the visually challenged people face while they do shopping and to provide a new, convenient shopping experience using modern technology.