Wykorzystanie nowych technologii w orientacji przestrzennej osób z niepełnosprawnością wzroku

Impaired People ◽

Fast Development ◽

Technical Solutions

The fast development of electronic and information technologies makes them becoming ever more present in the lives of the blind and visually impaired people. The aim of this article is to present modes of mobility of people with visual impairment, with particular focus on new technologies. The article contains the classification and characteristics of electronic aids used in spatial orientation and mobility for blind people. It also presents the benefits and difficulties of using these types of new technologies. The article presents research projects related to the construction and testing of new technical solutions in Poland.

Echolocation, as a method supporting spatial orientation and independent movement of people with visual impairment

Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej ◽

10.14746/ikps.2019.25.15 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 353-371

Author(s):

KAMILA MILER-ZDANOWSKA

Keyword(s):

Visual Impairment ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Spatial Orientation ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Blind People ◽

Research Projects ◽

The World ◽

Impaired People

Kamila Miler-Zdanowska, Echolocation, as a method supporting spatial orientation and independent movement of people with visual impairment. Interdisciplinary Contexts of Special Pedagogy, no. 25, Poznań 2019. Pp. 353-371. Adam MickiewiczUniversity Press. ISSN 2300-391X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ikps.2019.25.15 People with visual impairment use information from other senses to gain knowledge about the world around them. More and more studies conducted withthe participation of visually impaired people indicate that data obtained through auditory perception is extremely important. In this context, the ability of echolocation used by blind people to move independently is interesting. The aim of the article is to present echolocation as a method supporting spatial orientation of people with visual impairment. The article presents the results of empirical studies of echolocation. It also presents the benefits of using this ability in everyday life and signals research projects related to the methodology of teaching echolocation in Poland. People with visually impaired to get knowledge about the world around them use information from other senses. Many studies conducted with the participation of visually impaired people indicate that data obtained through hearing are extremely important. In this context, the ability of echolocation used by blind people to move independently is interesting. The aim of the article is to present echolocation as a method supporting spatial orientation of people with visual disabilities. The article presents the results of empirical studies on echolocation. It also presents the benefits of using this skill in everyday life and signals research projects on themethodology of teaching echolocation in Poland.

Humanizing Blindness through Public Education

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness ◽

10.1177/0145482x9008400801 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 84 (8) ◽

pp. 397-400 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

C.R. Augusto ◽

J.M. McGraw

Keyword(s):

Public Education ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Public Attitudes ◽

Blind People ◽

Education Programs ◽

Impaired People ◽

The Media ◽

Visually Impaired Persons

Public attitudes toward blindness are shaped by limited contacts with visually impaired people and unrealistic portrayals of blind people in the media. These attitudes hamper the integration of blind and visually impaired persons in society. Professionals in the field need ‘to work together to develop national and local public education programs to change stereotyped thinking. Proactive efforts that include a variety of methods can begin to humanize blindness and hence can lead to greater opportunities for fuller participation in society.

Information for and by Blind Persons in Rural Asia

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness ◽

10.1177/0145482x9008400608 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 84 (6) ◽

pp. 262-265

Author(s):

M. Miles

Keyword(s):

Visually Impaired ◽

Communication Strategies ◽

Blind People ◽

Self Help ◽

Impaired People ◽

Blind Persons

Blind and visually impaired people in rural Asia are largely unreached by modern rehabilitative information, nor are their indigenous skills and experience adequately formulated and shared. The use of many media in communication strategies has led to the reconceptualization of rehabilitation in information terms which offers better prospects of self-help for several million blind people.

Handbook of Research on Emerging Trends and Applications of Machine Learning - Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics ◽

Computer Vision-Based Assistive Technology for Helping Visually Impaired and Blind People Using Deep Learning Framework

10.4018/978-1-5225-9643-1.ch027 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 577-598

Author(s):

Mohamamd Farukh Hashmi ◽

Vishal Gupta ◽

Dheeravath Vijay ◽

Vinaybhai Rathwa

Keyword(s):

Computer Vision ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Visual Object ◽

Blind People ◽

Daily Routines ◽

Learning Framework ◽

The World ◽

Impaired People

Millions of people in this world can't understand environment because they are blind or visually impaired. They also have navigation difficulties which leads to social awkwardness. They can use some other way to deal with their life and daily routines. It is very difficult for them to find something in unknown environment. Blind and visually impaired people face many difficulties in conversation because they can't decide whether the person is talking to them or someone else. Computer vision-based technologies have increased so much in this domain. Deep convolutional neural network has developed very fast in recent years. It is very helpful to use computer vision-based techniques to help the visually impaired. In this chapter, hearing is used to understand the world. Both sight sense and hearing have the same similarity: both visual object and audio can be localized. Many people don't realise that we are capable of identifying location of the source of sound by just hearing it.

Touching Blind Bodies: A Critical Inquiry into Pedagogical and Cultural Constructions of Visual Disability in the Nineteenth Century

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0014 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Heather Tilley ◽

Jan Eric Olsén

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Blind People ◽

Embodied Experience ◽

Visual Disability ◽

Educational Challenges ◽

Impaired People ◽

The Senses ◽

Cultural Constructions

Changing ideas on the nature of and relationship between the senses in nineteenth-century Europe constructed blindness as a disability in often complex ways. The loss or absence of sight was disabling in this period, given vision’s celebrated status, and visually impaired people faced particular social and educational challenges as well as cultural stereotyping as poor, pitiable and intellectually impaired. However, the experience of blind people also came to challenge received ideas that the visual was the privileged mode of accessing information about the world, and contributed to an increasingly complex understanding of the tactile sense. In this chapter, we consider how changing theories of the senses helped shape competing narratives of identity for visually impaired people in the nineteenth century, opening up new possibilities for the embodied experience of blind people by impressing their sensory ability, rather than lack thereof. We focus on a theme that held particular social and cultural interest in nineteenth-century accounts of blindness: travel and geography.