7-in-7 | Day 1
22 Oct, 2019As Anna critiqued, to zoom out a bit from my specific research topic and possibly question what to ask if I was to interview visually impaired people. As 1st prototype I prepared a set of questions I would like ask to different vision impaired people. This will allow me to build a relationship with them as I will go through the questionnaire.
Personal Information
- What’s your age?
- What’s Your gender?
- Do you live with your family? If no, then whom?
- What is your educational qualification?
- Are you employed? If yes, How would you describe your work?
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Since when do you suffer from vision impairment?
- Partial Vision impairment from birth
- Partial Vision impairment from childhood
- Partial Vision impairment from early adulthood
- Partial Vision impairment from middle age (around 45 years)
- Partial Vision impairment from old age (around 60 years)
- Complete Vision impairment from birth
- Complete Vision impairment from childhood
- Complete Vision impairment from early adulthood
- Complete Vision impairment from middle age (around 45 years)
- Complete Vision impairment from old age (around 60 years)
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How would you describe your vision impairment?
- Totally blind with no awareness of light
- Blind and able to distinguish light and dark
- Able to see shapes, but unable to distinguish detail or to read print
- Able to read very large print text (20 pt)
- Able to read large print text (14 pt)
- On scale of 5, How would you rate your side vision?
- On scale of 5, How would you rate your night vision?
- On scale of 5, How would you rate your transition from a light filled room to a dark room?
- On scale of 5, How would you rate your transition from a dark room to a light filled room?
- Can you distinguish between colors?
Commute Details
- How many small distance(<5 kms) trips do you make in a month?
- How many medium distance(>5 kms and <20kms) trips do you make in a month?
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How many long distance(>20 kms) trips do you make in a month?
Small Distance Trips (<5 kms)
- What is the average time you take for small commute details?
- What means of transport do you use?
- On scale of 5, how would you rate your experience?
Medium Distance Trips (>5 kms and <20 kms)
- What is the average time you take for small commute details?
- What means of transport do you use?
- On scale of 5, how would you rate your experience?
Long Distance Trips (>20 kms)
- What is the average time you take for small commute details?
- What means of transport do you use?
- On scale of 5, how would you rate your experience?
- How often do you ask for assistance while crossing the road?
- On a scale of 5 (5 being most difficult), how difficult would crossing a new road would be?
- On a scale of 5 (5 being most difficult), how difficult it would be to cross a road without audile instructions?
- Do you have suggestions on what needs to be improved?
- How often do you need assistance in buying a ticket from ticket machines?
- How often do you need assistance in locating and passing the turnstile?
- On a scale of 5 (5 being most difficult), how difficult would moving around a new public space would be?
- On a scale of 5 (5 being most difficult), how difficult is to locate a familiar underground subway station?
- On a scale of 5 (5 being most difficult), how difficult is to locate a new underground subway station?
- On a scale of 5 (5 being most difficult), how difficult is to locate teh correct platform in a familiar subway station?
- On a scale of 5 (5 being most difficult), how difficult is to locate teh correct platform in a new subway station?
Use of Travel Aids
- Do you use any travel aids?
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What type of travel aid do you use?
- Cane
- Electronic Cane
- Guide Dog
- Human Guide
- Combination of above travel guides
- Any Other
- On a scale of 5, how easy it is to use ?
- How safe do you feel while navigating using this aid?
- Do you use any travel aid to route your destination?
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If yes, what kind of travel aid do you use?
- GPS
- Tactile Braille Map
- Tactile Embossed Map
- Tactile Map with audio description
- Screen reader on mobile phones
- Bold Text Map
- On a scale of 5, how confident are you in using this aid?
- Do you use any travel aid to navigate you to that destination?
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If yes, what kind of travel aid do you use?
- GPS
- Information signs or kiosks in the environment
- Tactile Braille Map
- Tactile Embossed Map
- Tactile Map with audio description
- Screen reader on mobile phones
- Bold Text Map
- Instructions printed in Braille
- On a scale of 5, how confident are you in using this aid?
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On a scale from 0 (least) to 5 (most), how do you perceive following while commuting?
- Listening
- Sight
- Smell
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Touch
- of Hands
- with long canes
- floor texture
- Spoken signs
- Heat sensitivity
- Do you use any visual landmarks? If yes, what kind of?
- Do you use any audio landmarks? If yes, what kind of?
- Do you use any smell landmarks? If yes, what kind of?
- How do you map new places in your mind? *(example in form of a picture of smells, touch, etc.)
- How would you describe the behavior of people around you? Are they helpful?
- Do you think there is a need of new aids?
- On a scale of 5 (5 being most important),How would its cost matter to you?
- Would you prefer separate aids for doing different things or a single aid for all of it? (Example navigation, obstacle avoidance, etc.)
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How would you like the information by the travel aid to be relayed to you?
- Haptic Feedback
- Sound
- Braille Script
- Pressure
- Temperature change
This will get me a through feedback from vision impaired people and a sense of trust and relationship with them since I listened to their issues thoroughly and touched on their daily problems which they might never speak explicitly. Implementing this questionnaire, would be a great start in prototyping phase.
