This talk was given as keynote at the International Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2013 (http://inmed13.innovationkt.org/) within the Ambient TeleCare invited session (http://inmed13.innovationkt.org/cmsISdisplay.php).
This presentation gives an overview on technologies assisting visually impaired persons and describes the progress made so far within the ALICE project (http://www.alice-project.eu/)
The event had a multi-disciplinary participation consisting of researchers, engineers, managers, students and practitioners from the medical arena, gathered for discussions on the ways the innovation, knowledge exchange and enterprise can be applied to issues related to medicine, healthcare and the issues of an ageing population.