Theia Mobility
Year
2026
Client
USC Iovine and Young Academy
My Role
Product Designer
A wearable spatial-awareness belt designed to work alongside the white cane, translating nearby obstacles into directional haptic feedback for blind and visually-impaired users. Explore the full project in the link below!
© Theia Mobility
Challenge
Building THEIA meant balancing technical feasibility with the responsibility of designing for disability. We had to package sensors, electronics, power, and haptic motors into a comfortable wearable, while designing feedback that could support awareness without creating unnecessary cognitive load or unsafe over-reliance.
The live project site goes deeper into the user challenge, existing mobility tools, safety guardrails, process innovation, stakeholder system, and future validation plan.
Solution
The final solution is a built wearable belt integrating six time-of-flight and LiDAR sensors with eight haptic motors to communicate directional proximity feedback around the body.
Visit the live project link to see the complete product design, prototype evidence, technical architecture, process model, business pathway, and project references.
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