[nfbmi-talk] wmu to study white cane

[joe harcz Comcast]

Amen.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christine Boone" <christineboone2 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] wmu to study white cane


> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 3-year project also will examine how to most effectively wield a cane to 
>> detect any obstacles.
>>
>>
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