The Official Blog of Project-Ray, the World's First Smartphone for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Movies for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Besides
art, movies can also be another weekend activity for the blind and visually
impaired. Here’s a snippet of how movies can be accessible to non-sighted
movie-goers.
Video source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT5AsjzgIC4
Art for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Any
plans for the weekend? Southern Methodist University’s Meadows Museum has
brought art to the blind and visually impaired through touch, sound and taste.
Tactile versions of paintings, objects that resemble what’s drawn and music
that reflects the artwork’s era and place are some of the ways the museum uses
to help their non-sighted visitors appreciate the artworks on display. A multisensory
experience for all!
Read article here.
Read article here.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
People Who Were Born Blind Visualize Numbers from Right to Left
People who are congenitally blind tend to count numbers
from right to left as they map the position of objects relative to themselves.
”Remembering and representing numbers is an important skill, and the foundation for mental maths. Visually impaired people are just as good, if not better at mathematics than sighted people - Georgian Maths Professor and Royal Society Fellow, Nicholas Saunderson as one famous example.”
Deemed the earliest discoverer of Bayes theorem, Saunderson may have been able to achieve this through his unconventional mental representation of numbers. A great example of how the blind view things differently, thereby creating or working in extraordinary ways.
Read article here.
”Remembering and representing numbers is an important skill, and the foundation for mental maths. Visually impaired people are just as good, if not better at mathematics than sighted people - Georgian Maths Professor and Royal Society Fellow, Nicholas Saunderson as one famous example.”
Deemed the earliest discoverer of Bayes theorem, Saunderson may have been able to achieve this through his unconventional mental representation of numbers. A great example of how the blind view things differently, thereby creating or working in extraordinary ways.
Read article here.
Blind People See the World from Another Angle
Researchers
from the University of Bath, in developing new solutions to facilitate operations
of daily sight-related activities by the blind, have found that those with no
visual experience at all view the world differently.
Read the article and watch this video for details.
Read the article and watch this video for details.
Video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEa5XCrh95w
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