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BRIEF
As designers we take the ability to “see”, in our users for granted. This is an
oppurtunity for the students to create a multi sensorial experience or intervention.
Through this studio students will explore the possibilities of using multi sensorial
mediums to conceptualize simple interventions for the visually impaired. The
students are encouraged to explore a diverse range of possibilities such as
navigation in public spaces, schools-classroom scenarios, products, learning
and teaching aids to name a few, using simple to advanced technologies.
This studio is a collaboration between students of art and design, visually
impaired, teachers and citizens at large. Through this studio the students will
learn research methods, service design thinking, gain an understanding of materials,
embedding simple technology such as Arduino, etc.
4. LOCATIONS
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Rakum School - Devannahalli Mathru School for the blind
Yelahanka
NAB - Indiranagar
Book Launch of ‘Lights Out’
Rangoli Art Centre, M.G Road
IDL Blind band performance
Orion Mall- Festival of giving
Swimming for the blind
Domlur
5. TED
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Neil Harbisson: I listen to color Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind
Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers Chris Hadfield:
What I learned from going blind in space
6. ANANDHI VISWANATHAN
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Anandhi is a 29 year old progressive retinositis patient.She started losing her eye
sight at the age of 18 and went completely blind by the age of 22. I chose her as
my guide for the project, to help understand blindness and design for the blind
better, not only because she knows both sides of the coin but also because she
works with the Centre for Internet and Society that looks at multidisciplinary
research and advocacy. CIS works on digital pluralism, public accountability
and pedagogic practices, in the field of Internet and Society.
She is incharge of voicing the problems of diabled people at the CIS.
9. TOOLS
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P I E S
S C A M P E R
BLACK
Dark
Barriers & fears
WHITE
Neutral
Facts
RED
Warm
Emotions & feelings
BLUE
Sky
Planning
GREEN
Alternatives
New possibilities
YELLOW
Bright
Benefits
Substitute Combine Adopt Modify Put to
another use
Eliminate Reverse
Physical Intellectual Emotional Social
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ASSISTIVE
TECHNOLOGY/PRODUCT
How?
What?
Why?
Where?
Combining with
Salient features
Does it need to be necessarily assistive?
Daily behaviour?
Behavioural study
Material study
Interviews
Shadowing
Online research
Cooking
Hygiene
Grooming
Sports
Activities
Sleep cycles
Entertainment
Music Games
Navigation
Changing the attitude that
they need to adapt instead
of the product adapting to them
That the products they
use need not always
be specially made for them
but also can be universal
Day to day products
low technology
may be a product that
can be used by all
As intuitive as possible
As subtle as possible
MIND MAP
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ASSISTIVE
TECHNOLOGY/PRODUCT
SIX HATS
Stigmatization
Stress due to training
Validity of the product
Narrowing down target audience
Bothersome to carry
Battery or power sourse
Research into available
technology and resources
What are the other application?
Durability
Avoiding Accidents
Safer environment
Sensorial and tactile ques
Low cost
Improving interaction
More able
Make it subtle or unique and attractive
to avoid stigmatization
Make it as universal as possible
Stick that grows with you
Cup that shows heat with texture
Way finding
cleaning aids
Kitchen aids
show identification
Dependent on product
Independent otherwise
Trust
Confidence
Assurity
Less clumsy
comfortable
Relief
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“Its like wiping a slate clean and starting over,
I had to learn household chores in a new way”
“In the kitchen you need to know exact measurements,
be very careful not to drop.
You have to clean the platform after every chore”
“While cooking I touch and feel to see what the measurements of a spoon is,
whether its a tablespoon or a tea spoon, wether its a half cup or a full cup.
Also when I read recipes, the measurements are different from what my
mother would tell me. The recipe says 180 ml and my mom said two cups.”
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KITCHEN PRODUCTS
MIND MAP
Timers
Recognising Aids
Books
Technique
Mesuring utensils
Safety utensils
For? How?
One time use cannisters
Cutlery
Storage boxes
Stickers
Magnets
Audio
Tactile
Adapted
Specially made
Primary Technique
Recipes adapted with
smell,touch, etc.
Products that tell you
their contents are hot
Measuring caps
Slotted spoons
made of heat
ressistant materials
Upright Spoon
Funnel to drop off
excess after spilling
Cut and slide cutting board
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FUNNEL BOWL
Often when certain ingredients like maida, milk, etc need to me measured,
they are either filled ina meauring container carefully or a blind person keep
his thumb to check if it has reached a certain level.
The funnel bowl helps remove this worry completely by directing the spillage
into a storage form where it could be put back into the container.
17. 26FIRST PROTOTYPE
Reduce height
Decrease angle of the funnel
Bigger measures
Wider towards the funnel
Bigger hole for pouring out
Inculcate the two objects
into one
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TEXTURED HEAT
Concept product that shows that the container is hot through tecture
C
USER FEEDBACK
Smoother curves
measuring cups should be placed in the middle
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MEASURING CAPS
Easy ways to measure and directing spillage back to the container
TEXTURED HEAT
Concept product that shows that the container is hot through tecture
Bimetallic strips
attched to the
vessel.Due to
heat transfer
these mettalic
strip expand
Rubber as an
insulating material
Avoids direct
contact of the user
with the metal
27. 27RENDERING
Swivel mechanism
from the inside to allow
into the cap
Required volume
of the content
outlet
Swivel mechanism
from the inside to allow
into the cap
of the contents inside the bottle
Required volume
of the content
outlet
29. 29RENDERING
Easy ways to measure and directing spillage back to the container
Bimetallic strips
attched to the
vessel.Due to
heat transfer
these mettalic
strip expand
Rubber as an
insulating material
Avoids direct
contact of the user
with the metal
The bimetallic strips
expand making the