Isn’t it! I have hesitations about the use of RFID for this. I know of another project that used spoken “tags” together with location based services to supply spatial information, but in their prototype/demo, the information they supplied was largely irrelevant. For instance, a coffee shop would also start reading you its menu if you drilled down, instead of saying where the entrance was. It is as if in designing such tools there is no input from blind people, only a set of assumptions. And they almost always do tests with blindfolded sighted people. I’m sure navigational needs are different, at least for me they would be. I am considering having a go at a prototype together with Aat (the GPS recording guru)
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Very interesting. Thanks for posting!
Isn’t it! I have hesitations about the use of RFID for this. I know of another project that used spoken “tags” together with location based services to supply spatial information, but in their prototype/demo, the information they supplied was largely irrelevant. For instance, a coffee shop would also start reading you its menu if you drilled down, instead of saying where the entrance was. It is as if in designing such tools there is no input from blind people, only a set of assumptions. And they almost always do tests with blindfolded sighted people. I’m sure navigational needs are different, at least for me they would be. I am considering having a go at a prototype together with Aat (the GPS recording guru)
I’ll look forward to followihng developments.