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College Student developing a Color Scanning device (Survey) (self.Blind)
submitted by DiThomas2
Hello, I am a freshman college student and for one of my courses, I am developing a color scanning device. I would like to get some input from your community, since your my target audience for this product. Thank you in advance for taking this survey!
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For clarification, this survey is for a single course with the assignment to make a device that helps blind people, the device doesn't have to be something new. The goal of our assignment during this course is to familiarize with completing a design process and we will only make a prototype, most likely nothing will happen after that, but if that is the case I will let you know. Thank you for your critical questions!
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Edit:
For clarification, this survey is for a single course with the assignment to make a device that helps blind people, the device doesn't have to be something new. The goal of our assignment during this course is to familiarize with completing a design process and we will only make a prototype, most likely nothing will happen after that, but if that is the case I will let you know. Thank you for your critical questions!
BlakeBlues 3 points 2y ago
I'm pretty sure this already exists. iOS and Play Store have free and paid apps for color discrimination. There are also overturned devices, though they are usually expensive how will this be different than what is out there? It'd be nice to see some sort of development.
Feel free to do research on some academic journals if you need.
Feel free to do research on some academic journals if you need.
DiThomas2 [OP] 2 points 2y ago
The goal for this assignment is to familiarise with the prosses of designing a product. We know that it isn't a new project. Thank you for your response
BlakeBlues 2 points 2y ago
Good luck!
DiThomas2 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thank you!
CloudyBeep 3 points 2y ago
Before I complete this survey, I'd like to know what preliminary research you've done. Do you have any idea about how totally blind people sort their clothing and find out what color things are? Because if you did, you're not doing a good job of pitching your product, and if you haven't, how do you know your device will solve a problem that needs solving?
DiThomas2 [OP] 2 points 2y ago
I have done some preliminary research and i mostly found that totally blind people, mostly label their clothing in braille or use pins to determine what color their clothing is. Our product is not neccisarily meant to solve a problem but to make doing things like sorting clothing easier. Labelings still can come off during washing and this device then could help identify the clothing again without the help of another person.
CloudyBeep 2 points 2y ago
There are many hardware and software solutions for identifying colors. Some are free and do a good job.
Superfreq2 2 points 2y ago
I've never found a software color detector that did a good job even in usable light and with a modern smartphone camera. Standalone devices at least for now seem like the best option.
If you can figure out how to make it cheaper, more effective, or more durable, those would all be very useful things. Making tactile markers for the buttons, indicator tones or speech for various device actions, and instructions that a blind person could read either in braille/large print, audio, or online with contrast and font size settings on the webpage, are all vital if you want to take this seriously.
But even if this is just a do it and forget about it project, I still think it's good that you asked, and I hope that what you've learned about accessibility will follow you into what ever career you end up with.
If you can figure out how to make it cheaper, more effective, or more durable, those would all be very useful things. Making tactile markers for the buttons, indicator tones or speech for various device actions, and instructions that a blind person could read either in braille/large print, audio, or online with contrast and font size settings on the webpage, are all vital if you want to take this seriously.
But even if this is just a do it and forget about it project, I still think it's good that you asked, and I hope that what you've learned about accessibility will follow you into what ever career you end up with.
DiThomas2 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thank you for those pointers! Honestly i think it is mostly a do it and then forget about project, but i am really enjoying learning about the accessibility issues that other people have and how to negate those issues, so i'll definetly use the information i learned for my further career. :)
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