User Study on Blind and their Navigation Behaviour inLocal Trains


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Creator/Artist: Kalyani S Dhone

Category: Interaction Design

Document: Design Research

Batch: 2013-2015

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Mandar Rane


Detailed Description

In Mumbai most of the people travels by Local train as it is connected to all the places, but the routes of these trains are complex and difficult to understand. It is always interesting to know how the blind people must be travelling without any vision and how they navigate from one place to another in city like Mumbai. The user study is aimed to understand, how blind people travel in local trains. In this user study, we tried to understand - How blind people get information, what are the techniques and methods they use to get this information, what are the problems they are facing currently in traveling, the different resources and assistive systems they use for communicating and navigation. Also, we tried to investigate their behaviour while travelling in Local trains, how they find correct trains and their destinations stations. The focus user group was children, young people above 18 years and adults. From the gathered data, we tried to find observations and insights which may help in developing system for blinds for navigation in Mumbai local trains.