Vision and adaption of technology

Vision and adaption of technology
“Most cognitive activities involve people interacting with external kinds of representations, like books, documents, and computers to mention one another.”, but with vision impaired patients, sometimes interaction become hard to adapt. Therefore, data recording is essential for them. “the choice of data recording approach will affect the level of detail collected, and how intrusive the data gathering will be. In most settings, audio recording, photographs, and notes will be sufficient. In others it is essential to collect video data so as to record in detail the intricacies of the activity and its context” (Preece, Yvonne, & Sharp, 2015)

Reflection on the Topic

1.      Using sensors, voice recognize technology, and navigation technologies will help vision-impaired patients improved their lives. Navigation helps detect obstacles while sensors and apps help determine the safest route. (Paladugu, Chandakkar, Zhang, & Li, 2017). Technology helps patients become more functional in life.
2.      “Navigation assistance for visually impaired users includes accessible infrastructure, specialized orientation and mobility training [1], and technological aids [2]. Technological aids, which are the focus of this work, may be devices that give live help on site or tools that help the user to prepare for the journey ahead of time.”(Paladugu et al., 2017)
3.     
Using Google Glass as base, develop new techniques can help vision impaired patients.
(Preece et al., 2015)

My Thought

“Navigating an unfamiliar outdoor space is a challenging task for visually impaired (VI) people. The use of technological devices in conjunction with specialized training and accessible architecture of buildings and roads has made this task possible.”(Paladugu et al., 2017)

Reference List

Paladugu, A., Chandakkar, P. S., Zhang, P., & Li, B. (2017). Supporting Navigation of Outdoor Shopping Complexes for Visually-impaired Users through Multi-modal Data Fusion.
Preece, J., Yvonne, R., & Sharp, H. (2015). INTERACTION DESIGN: Beyond human-computer interaction (4th ed.). West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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