[nfbmi-talk] wmu to study white cane

[Christine Boone]

This is especially ironic as the good folks named in the article have not ever deigned to even examine a long, hollow fiberglass or carbon fiber cane,.  

I know that they have been asked, and encouraged to do so, but to my knowledge have not accepted any such invitation.
Before setting out to reinvent a thing, it might be important to know about the entire breadth of the field in which that thing exists.  

On May 5, 2014, at 10:29 AM, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz at comcast.net> wrote:

> No comment. For informational purposes.
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> Joe
> Study looks at design of canes used by blind people Associated Press Three Western Michigan University professors are helping to study whether white canes
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> used by blind and visually impaired people might benefit from a redesign. The Kalamazoo Gazette reports the Dae Shik Kim, Robert Wall Emerson and Koorosh
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> Naghshineh will study how to improve the ergonomic design and cane-use biomechanics to help cane users better detect obstacles and drop-offs while walking.
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> The hope is to help users avoid injuries. Research is being funded by a more than $421,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Kim, the project's
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> principal investigator, says the long cane was developed during the 1940s and has changed little since then, partly due to lack of research. He says the
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> 3-year project also will examine how to most effectively wield a cane to detect any obstacles. 
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