[NFB-Maryland] Recruiting Blind Orientation and Mobility Instructors for a Research Study

[president at nfbmd.org]

Hi All,

Please see a message below from our good friend and colleague Jonathan
Lazar.

 

 

Dear NFB community members, 

 

Our research team, led by Professor Niklas Elmqvist at University of
Maryland, College Park, aims to improve information accessibility for blind
individuals through design and evaluation of interactive systems that
represent data in the form of sound. We are designing an interactive tool to
support data analysis using sound. We are interested in insights from
Orientation and Mobility (O&M) training that we may effectively use in our
design process.

 

We are recruiting blind professional Orientation and Mobility experts as
participants in this research. You also need to be 18 years of age or older.


 

We are interested in your instructional background, specifically your
training of blind individuals, how blind individuals rely on sound for
creating mental maps of the environment, and how blind individuals use
auditory interfaces in activities of daily living. The interview will in
total take approximately 60 minutes. The entire interview will be audio
recorded. No personal data will be collected (other than for tax purposes)
and all data will be anonymized.

 

Participants will be paid a $100 Amazon Gift Card for their time and
efforts. Interview sessions will be conducted over the phone, or online
using a video conferencing tool of your choice (e.g., Skype, Zoom, or Google
Hangouts).

 

To sign up, please send an email to Pramod Chundury (pchundur at umd.edu
<mailto:pchundur at umd.edu> ) with your preferred appointment date and time.
After receiving your email, we will reply to confirm your appointment, and
provide details about the study.

 

Best regards,

 

Dr. Niklas Elmqvist ( <mailto:elm at umd.edu> elm at umd.edu) and Dr. Jonathan
Lazar ( <mailto:jlazar at umd.edu> jlazar at umd.edu)

 

 

 

Ronza Othman, President

National Federation of the Blind of Maryland

443-426-4110

Pronouns: she, her, hers

 

The National Federation of the Blind of Maryland knows that blindness is not
the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
blindness is not what holds you back.

 

 

 

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