[TAGS] preferences for tactile models versus maps?

Thu Mar 31 20:09:14 UTC 2022

That's an interesting comment Dan, macro and then micro. That is something I can work with. Thanks.

Matt Gesualdi
Tact-Ed.org

On Mar 31, 2022 10:41 AM, Dan Burke <dburke at cocenter.org> wrote:

Debbie makes a good point about a map or model being helpful to establish a mental map, if I’m not being too liberal with your comment Debbie.

When I worked at a university, one of my colleagues collaborated with an O&M instructor to make a tactile map of a part of the campus for a blind student. The O&M told her to put in all the detail she could. An artist in her spare time who loved detail in her work, that’s what she did. I found it overwhelming in terms of information. And I think that the O&M was wrong.

Debbie’s comment made me think about taking a quick look at a tactile map or a model to get the macro picture of things, say something when you land on a particular floor of the museum. I can worry about the micro along the way.

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Subject: RE: [TAGS] preferences for tactile models versus maps?

Thanks Dan for the shout out.

I think models are useful for historic, less available or non-existent buildings for educational purposes. Maybe not great wayfinders though.

Matt Gesualdi
Tact-Ed.org

On Mar 31, 2022 9:37 AM, Dan Burke <dburke at cocenter.org<mailto:dburke at cocenter.org>> wrote:

Maps. Maps. Maps.

At least if the purpose is navigation. Models would have to be much larger to be actually useful for navigation, would take longer to create, be unwieldy, if not immobile. I’m thinking of a model of a large building’s interior. It would have to be the size of a conference table probably, and how could it easily convey multiple floors? More time, more resources, more space, less utility than a map.

And now I just saw matt’s comment about carrying multiple maps of different floors to navigate a building. That’s why I’d prefer a map over a model for navigation. I could carry multiple tactile maps, but not a model.

I think the model question is part of the “All the Light We Cannot See” syndrome. The blind girl memorizing everything from the model of her town doesn’t really convey well what blind folks can effectively use. That part of the novel was the most frustrating to me because it carried with it a host of incorrect assumptions about blindness and blind people.

Models for other purposes, however, are incredibly cool. Matt has a model he built of the May D&F tower in down Denver. It’s a Denver architectural icon, and I wouldn’t have a clue what it looked like without Matt’s model. But if I wanted to go there, I’d want a map.

(smile)

Dan

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Subject: Re: [TAGS] preferences for tactile models versus maps?

Hi Cheryl,

When you say maps versus models, are you thinking that models would have more height to walls and built-in features as opposed to maps being more like low bas reliefs?

Matt Gesualdi
Tact-Ed.org

On Mar 31, 2022 3:00 AM, Cheryl Fogle-Hatch via TAGS <tags at nfbnet.org<mailto:tags at nfbnet.org>> wrote:

Hello everyone.

I was asked if blind people prefer tactile maps or tactile models when
seeking information about navigating a building. I'm thinking this
might be a personal preference, but I'm curious about different ideas.
Does anyone know of research into this topic?

Thanks in advance.

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