[nabs-l] Seeking Opinions on Blind Research Techniques

Fri Jan 27 03:19:23 UTC 2017

Hi Elizabeth,

You would still be going to the sight, listening to the 
conversations that go on, paying attention to all the other 
auditory cues you can etc.  Taking someone with you could work 
something like when an actual anthropologist uses a translator 
except instead of translating one language to another, they would 
be translating specific visual information that you asked them 
for (like what the students eat, how much they leave on their 
plates, etc.).  I think given your list of topics, a lot of this 
isn't visual anyway, so you could do this on your own.  All the 
things involving authority over food choices and peer pressure, 
for instance, involve paying attention to conversations, which 
you could do at least as well as any sighted person.

HTH,
Karl

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Hello Justin,

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my message. Can you 
expand upon this idea? How would I use another person to conduct 
my research without this person doing my research for me? If I 
were to use another person for my research, would my research be 
based on their observations and not mine? I am the one who needs 
to be conducting the research and not someone else.

Thanks,
Elizabeth

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You could have someone go with you.  It would be aloud as an 
accommodation.
You could have the professor or disability help you find someone, 
or you could find your own person.
You might have to pay them.  Such as paying another college 
student, or a classmate.
 Justin

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Subject: [nabs-l] Seeking Opinions on Blind Research Techniques

Hello All,

I hope everyone is off to a good start to the beginning of a new 
semester. I would like to participate in a service learning 
project for an anthropology class I am taking this semester, and 
I am wondering if anyone has any tips or advice on conducting 
participant observational research for social science classes.

The research includes twelve visits observing a first grader 
during lunch at a local elementary school. We are then asked to 
propose a specific research topic related to behavior and food, 
and write a paper based on our observations along with some 
scholarly resources.

I have never conducted participant observational research before, 
so I am not completely sure how I would be able to do this as a 
blind student. Since observing other people includes both visual 
and non-visual aspects of the environment and the people in it, 
what would be the best way for me to be able to obtain the visual 
aspects of the environment and the people in it as a blind 
student while conducting my research?

Some suggested specific topics for the research paper include 
food waste, peer pressure related to food choices, socialization 
during eating periods, physical movement during eating periods, 
gender differences, influence of authority over food choices, 
aesthetic presentation of food and its relationship to food 
choices, and marketing related to food choices.

If anyone knows how I could successfully conduct a participant 
observational research project as a blind student, I would 
greatly appreciate hearing from you. However, please note there 
is also a more traditional research paper assignment for any 
student who does not wish to complete the service learning 
project. So this research project is simply an option that I 
would like to be able to do if I can figure out a way to be able 
to do it as a blind student.

Thanks,
Elizabeth
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