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

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Arielle,

How about cutting? It's tough to do blindfolded, even when the 
sighted person already knows how to cut (when I was learning, my 
parents tried it a couple times and found it hard to do with 
their eyes closed,) but it would be easier to do with a nonvisual 
technique (i.e.  feeling the food to know where to stab into it 
with the fork, or listening for your knife to touch the plate so 
you know when you're done cutting.) Would this be too hard for 
your purposes? If you have any questions, please let me know.

 Chris Nusbaum

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:54:12 -0600
Subject: [nabs-l] More Ideas Needed for my Research Project

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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