NETRA: A LOW-COST, MOBILE DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR SELF-EVALUATION OF EYE REFRACTIVE DISORDERS


Fall 2010

Ramesh Raskar
Media Lab

Hundreds of millions of people, especially in developing countries have uncorrected refractive errors affecting their daily livelihood and leads to illiteracy and poverty.  This project is developing a low cost, rapid, easy to use tool to measure the refractive error and provide data for corrective eyeglass prescription. This tool could be used by individuals in homes, schools or locations where an optometrist is not available. http://web.media.mit.edu/~pamplona/NETRA/