Week 5 - Input/Output

For handicapped users, voice input could be used to maneuver around the metro monitors and users could plug in headphones to get audio feedback/directions/information from the monitor. If possible, certain cities could also print out schedules in Braille format for handicapped commuters in addition to the audio being heard. Or, blind commuters could also have a metro monitor send information to their phone where they can replay the audio whenever they needed to.

Additionally, handicapped commuters could also have special RFID tags attached to a bus pass or their wallet. The RFID tag would be active and any metro monitor would come with an RFID reader. When the monitor detects a "handicapped RFID tag" it can voice directions or automatically engage an audible noise to direct blind commuters to areas where they could stand freely or to the monitor itself. Once the commuter could get close enough the audio could turn off and the monitor could activate, prompting the blind commuter for directions.

Monitors could also serve as pseudo ATM machines (but for bus passes, if that makes sense). Each metro monitor could be attached with a magnetic stripe card reader so commuters could check the balance on their card (e.g. California's Metro TAP Card) or update information. Furthermore, handicapped commuters could have special metro cards that, when they scan it, they can choose the route(s) they need to take so that when they board the bus and tap their card onto a reader, the bus driver can be alerted of what stops need to be made (just in case the commuter forgets to press the stop button or if the bus driver forges to ask the commuter where s/he needs to be dropped off.