Tiresias Project - Team Website

Abstract

This web-site details and chronicles the development of an integrated system dubbed "Tiresias" or "Tiresias Integrated Realtime Electronic Supplier of Information About Surroundings", our response to the challenge set by the yearly System Level Integration Practical. Tiresias was the son of Everes and the nymph Chariclo; he was a blind prophet, the most famous soothsayer of ancient Greece. It is for this reason that we chose such a name for our project, one whose main goal is to provide guidance to the blind.


Individual reports are available for each group member, detailing their involvement with the project; at all times you should be able to return to this page with gratuitous use of your browser's "back" button. Reports are available by clicking on the relevant person's name at the top of this page.
In addition to the reports the source code for the project is made available as a bzipped tarball; there are also several media files to help better illustrate the working status of our end-product, originally produced for the event that live demonstration failed (which it didn't).

Thanks!

To Martin Ling, D.K. Arvind, Matthew Barnes, Hugh Leather and Alex Young for their academic guidance and support throughout the project, without the previous efforts of whom this experience would not have been possible.

Source Code

The source code is available from http://www.recondite.co.uk/slip/tiresias-source.tar.bz2 and contains both C and Java code with build scripts for Linux/Unix or Windows operating systems. Java documentation is available here.

Additional Media

There are three videos available, made during the final moments of the project to ensure there would be something to demonstrate. The movies are unfortunately only available in .mov format, due to the camera they were taken with.

• Walkthrough demo with Gwylim, demonstrating the guidance given as navigation is made around the system.
• Editor demo, demonstrating the means by which the nodes may be defined for the system.
• UserNode positional icon (PacMan) is guided around screen in response to actual UserNode walking through system.