[Promotion-technology] MIT requesting your input on braille labeler

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Of Amy Ruell
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:29 PM
To: 'Committee on the Promotion, Evaluation and Advancement of Technology'
Subject: [Promotion-technology] MIT requesting your input on braille labeler

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Dear Customer,

We are the senior mechanical engineering design team at MIT working on
designing and building a brand new Braille labeler. We need the help of
people like
you to design the best product possible for the blind and visually impaired.
We would be so grateful if you could reply to this email with your own
answers
to the questions listed below at your earliest convenience. The results will
be assessed anonymously; your confidentiality is certainly our priority.


Thank you so much! Please continue reading for our survey questions.

1. How much vision do you have? When did you lose your vision? Tital four
years

2. What is your age 44? (teens, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, etc.)

3. Do you own a 3M label maker?no

4. What have you used your 3M label maker to label?

5. Approximately how many letters can you type in 10 seconds on your 3M
label maker?

6. If you label disposable items, such as canned foods, can you describe how
you do it? Do you adhere the label to the can and dispose of it when you
throw
away the can? Or do you have a system for reusing your labels? Can you
describe it? If you reuse your labels, is it to save money, to save the time
of
making a new label, or is there another reason? I use a barcode reader

7. When you use your 3M label maker, do you usually make multiple labels in
one sitting, or do use it each time you need just one label?

8. Do you ever have a need to make multiple lines of label? Is it
challenging to make two labels and line one up below the next while placing
them?
yes
9. Is there any part of the labeling process for which you prefer or require
help from a sighted friend? (Identifying items to be labeled, creating the
labels, trimming the labels, peeling the labels, sticking the labels, etc.)

10. Do you carry your 3M label maker with you? To work? To the grocery
store? If your 3M label maker were small and light enough, would you carry
it with
you to label things right away as you purchased them?

11. Would you purchase a label maker that required batteries to operate?yes 

12. What other things do you have to do besides simply embossing the braille
in order to prepare a label? (How often do you have to buy replacement tape?
Do you have to trim the label? Peel the backing? Anything else?) Please
elaborate on anything that is tricky or inconvenient, or that might
sometimes cause
a mistake so that you have to remake the label.

13. Do you own any technology for which you would say that the buttons are
too small?yes

14. Do you own a brailler or a Braille note? Which do you have, and how long
have you had one? Approximately how many letters per second can you type in
10 seconds on your brailler or Braille note?Braille Note thirty words per
minute

15. How much would you be willing to spend for a label maker that used dymo
tape, had a 6-button interface like a brailler or a Braille note, and was
smaller
than the 3M label maker?$100.00

Thank you so much for your time! Please forward this on to any friends who
may be able to help, and have them reply to me, Karina Pikhart, at 
kpikhart at mit.edu
. Any questions about the nature of our project or of this survey may also
be addressed to me.

Thanks again!
Karina Pikhart
2.009 Blue Team

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