[accessibleimage] Failing devices, designed for visually impaired

Dear All,
 
Thanks for your responses so far, they're great. In response to your
question Mel, I am in the midst of writing my PhD, which is part of a larger
research programme called TIMP.
I was in the process of writing my justifications for putting the user in
the centre of my design methodology and was trying to think of examples of
what happens when you don't! I could think of a few examples of failing
products, most prominent one I could think of  was a GPS guidance device for
the blind, (I think it came out in the early or mid 90s) that was very good
with the exclusion that it forced the user to use headphones. Needless to
say users did not use the device as they could not listen to traffic and
ambient sounds, etc. I cannot find a reference to it though!
 
Hope this helps putting things into context.
 
All the best,
 
Snir
 
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Snir Dinar
Department of Design and Technology
Anglia Ruskin University
Cambridge 
 
 
 


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hi
could i ask why snir you are looking for such examples? is it for an essay,
report or suchlike?
all the best
mel poluck
e-access bulletin, uk



At 01:09 08/01/2007, you wrote:


Not sure if this is along the line of what you are looking for ... How about
ATM machines?  I see them with braille but screen quality is poor and the
one's I've seen provide no voice output to let the user know what is on the
screen.



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Hi Everyone,



Apologies in advance if this isn't appropriate for this list! I'm looking


for examples of devices (of any type) which were specifically designed or


adapted to people with visual impairment, yet when you came to use it, you


found it to be failing or lacking something that you thought was quite


essential. This could be absolutely anything: from insufficient


functionalities to wrong physical shape/size/design.



Thank



Snir

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