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<div dir="auto">Thanks Dan for the shout out.
<div dir="auto">I think models are useful for historic, less available or non-existent buildings for educational purposes. Maybe not great wayfinders though. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 31, 2022 9:37 AM, Dan Burke <dburke@cocenter.org> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman' , serif">Maps. Maps. Maps.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman' , serif">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman' , serif">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. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman' , serif">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman' , serif">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman' , serif">(smile)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman' , serif">Dan</span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [TAGS] preferences for tactile models versus maps?</p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in">Hi Cheryl, </p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0.5in">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? </p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in">On Mar 31, 2022 3:00 AM, Cheryl Fogle-Hatch via TAGS <<a href="mailto:tags@nfbnet.org">tags@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in">Hello everyone.<br>
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I was asked if blind people prefer tactile maps or tactile models when<br>
seeking information about navigating a building. I'm thinking this<br>
might be a personal preference, but I'm curious about different ideas.<br>
Does anyone know of research into this topic?<br>
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Thanks in advance.<br>
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