2D Space Understanding for Blind - By applying 3D concepts


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Creator/Artist: Shweta Kable

Category: Communication Design

Document: Design Research

Batch: 2012-2014

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. G G Ray


Detailed Description

The world around visually impaired person is drastically different from the experience of a person with normal vision. Very few skilled and explored people can achieved the environment around them to some extent. Every time when we go to any new place we create mental map of that place with the help of various visual clues and if someone asked you about that place then you prefer to give him/ her illustrated hand drawn map. Blind people lack this visual information and they face great difficulties in generating efficient mental maps of spaces and therefore find difficult to navigating efficiently in these spaces. Here we describe how blind people perform with haptic devices and understand the task given to them with minimum support. The project went through multiple experiments with blinds and we found out interacting with them is the best possible way to understand them better.