[nabs-l] More Ideas Needed for my Research Project

[Justin Young]

Hi Arielle,

I hope your studies have gone great since they all sound interesting.
For 6 consecutive years I did a program at my former high school about
blindness where we did some minor Braille skills which all thought
very interesting.  Then the part which people asked every year for me
to do was the cane travel portion.  I would show them how to use a
cane first and then once they got the hang of it we did an obstical
course.  We started out with just a few desks in a path of sort which
it took people longer than others and then we did bigger which was the
whole school including going upstairs.  Hope some of these ideas help
you.

Justin

On 8/24/11, Katie Wang <bunnykatie6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Arielle,
>   As I have said before, this is a very interesting study! I can't
> really think of a third task at the moment, but for the cane travel
> task, I thought that an interesting alternative may be teaching
> blindfolded participants how to navigate going up or down steps with a
> ccane. As you must know from experience, there is a common
> misconception that blind people can not use stairs safely and will
> easily fall, so showing the participants that this can be effectively
> done with the use of a cane may bring a more significant increase in
> their appreciation of what blind people can learn through training.
> The use of sound cues is also a good one, although the counting-door
> technique seems a bit too intuitive to me.
> Hope this helps!
>      Katie
>
>
> On 8/24/11, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> As I've mentioned here a few times, i'm doing a research project for
>> my Ph.D. dissertation investigating how disability simulations affect
>> nondisabled people's attitudes toward people with disabilities. In the
>> experiment I'm developing now, we want to compare a standard blindness
>> simulation (where people put on sleepshades and have to do some basic
>> tasks) with an enhanced simulation where people learn very basic
>> nonvisual techniques for handling the tasks. We want to show people in
>> the enhanced simulation condition that the tasks are more manageable
>> with the nonvisual techniques, and see if that makes them more able to
>> appreciate the adjustment that real blind people experience through
>> time and training. We need ideas for simple tasks that sighted people
>> could do blindfolded by using a nonvisual method that they can learn
>> fast without much practice. For example, one of our tasks is pouring a
>> glass of water as full as possible without spilling; in the enhanced
>> simulation condition, we will teach the participants to use their
>> finger as a guide to know when the glass is full. We also want to
>> incorporate some very basic cane travel and teach participants to
>> either use a sound cue (i.e. a fan) as a navigational aid, count doors
>> on one side of the hallway, or both. Can any of you think of a third
>> task that's (a) possible but tough to do blindfolded and (b) possible
>> to do better with a nonvisual technique that's simple and easy to
>> learn?
>> Thanks!
>> Arielle
>>
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