Interview: [Helping the Visually Impaired Walk Alone Coded Braille Blocks” Pioneer the City of the Future] is now available!
1/14/26
The Neurodiversity Project, sponsored by B Lab, aims to realize a society in which the diversity of the brain and nervous system is respected and everyone is empowered to be their own person. In this Neurodiversity Project interview series, we will introduce the efforts of Professor Kunio Matsui of the Department of Intelligent Information Systems, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, who exhibited at “Brain World for Everyone” for the first time in 2025. Kunio Matsui’s laboratory is working on the development and social implementation of “coded Braille blocks,” which enable users to obtain audio information about their surroundings when they hold their smartphones over Braille blocks in the city. Nanako Ishido, Director of B Lab, spoke with Matsui about his research to help the visually impaired walk alone.
