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Products for Disability

Adonis Toh

Thursday, Sep 22, 2016 - 09:07:01 pm

@ Adonis Toh

The GlassOuse is an assistive mouse designed for people who cannot use their hands.

The mouse is designed like a pair of glasses and moving the cursor is based on head movements. Clicking the mouse is based off biting the blue mouthpiece.

Cities Unlocked: A navigational product which uses 3D sound to guide the visually impaired around the urban landscape

The wearable empowers the visually Read more →
Categories: Research
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What do people with different lifestyle wear?

Benny

Thursday, Sep 22, 2016 - 07:03:05 pm

@ BennyOu

An interview has been conducted with a selected pool of individuals with the different lifestyle of what types of clothes do they have in their wardrobe.

The results are collected and collated to observe the trends.

Categories: Research
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Observations: Urban Wheels Challenge @ Scape

Xiu Ming

Thursday, Sep 22, 2016 - 12:48:35 pm

@ LOH XIU MING

This is a one-day event. The Urban Wheels Challenge is organized by MediaCorp’s OOH Media, and it is a cycling competition with a challenging course designed to mimic the outdoor terrain in an urban setting.

Building up from last year’s inaugural challenge, this year’s cycling event throwbacks to the basics of mountain biking, engaging and introducing to the public about the Read more →

Categories: Research
Xiuming, check this out: https://www.facebook.com/NammaChennaiNamakke/ This beach is near my dad's house in Chennai. Every Sunday it becomes an event /exercise/ music area. 'Namma Chennai Namakke' means 'our Chennai is for us'. I been to one of them and I might land up this Sunday!
Hello, Peer! It seems like most activities out held at Namma Chennai Namakke requires only basic equipment, such as yoga mats, and signboards. The temporarily reappropriated roads like this one have to stay unaltered physically because of its original purpose. The temporary features that can be disassembled and reassembled by event owners (to be handle-able easily by one person for the best effect). The event owners should have a choice to own components or the full set and added on components, the owner of the yoga event can purchase the basic kit to assemble just a signboard holder, and maybe purchase an additional space marker to demarcate the yoga space he needs. An owner of the remote control car race can own a magic box which can be assembled into life-size terrains. Just wildly imagining.

Lower & Upper Pierce Reservoir

Xiu Ming

Friday, Sep 16, 2016 - 10:53:44 am

@ LOH XIU MING

With Peer’s recommendation, I went tripping to Upper and Lower Pierce Reservoir to observe outdoor activities. Peer referred the preferred entrance to an open area as an unmarked road on Google maps. Not being sure of the location, the first road I picked to enter was Old Upper Thomson Road.

Time: 10.30am Date: 11 September, Sunday

Home-maker with daughter and husband

Drove to Read more →

Categories: Research
Good discussions yesterday. Let us tighten our thoughts on the product/environment requirements for your design this Friday.  
Okie! Meanwhile there will be more trips documented :D

Inspiration for game tools and Equipments

Gchino

Friday, Sep 16, 2016 - 10:36:46 am

@ Recreational Mobility Device

The tools and equipments that require for the race would need to be scattered around the race track. It will be hard to keep track all of these game tools that will be collected. To facilitate ease and making use of cutting age technology – Augmented Reality (AR).

An example of an AR Equipment that can be used is the hololens. Read more →

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Taichi fighting with wooden dummy

Kate:)

Friday, Sep 16, 2016 - 12:35:41 am

@ Kate-FYP: Everyday Fitness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgqhuu_80ZQ

Categories: Research
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Existing Products and Specs

Gchino

Friday, Sep 09, 2016 - 10:33:55 am

@ Recreational Mobility Device

Here are all the more common mobility devices seen around our neighbourhood together with the engineering specifications for research purposes.

Categories: Final Project | Research
Tags: Research
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Visual & Hearing impaired

Adonis Toh

Friday, Sep 09, 2016 - 07:30:29 am

@ Adonis Toh

Observation:

Deaf & Blind people experience a dark world with no sounds. – They use their remaining senses : Smell & Touch to understand the world that we live in. – Identify people based on smell

The mentor interacts and creates a bond with the disabled through these 2 senses that only she can experience.

Categories: Research
Very inspiring!

Social Stigma faced by People with Disabilities

Adonis Toh

Friday, Sep 09, 2016 - 07:17:24 am

@ Adonis Toh

Individuals with disabilities are faced with stigma and discrimination from the society where they live. Most people look down on them and treat them as special. Disabled people may find it hard to socialize with members of the society. This can lead to depression as well as self pity, if not checked.

(http://www.dmd-aapd.org/people-with-disabilities/)

Most celebrated achievers were born into a life of Read more →

Categories: Research
Remember - if you are working with people with disabilities, what ever we do, we must ensure that it accords dignity to the person(s)/people with (that) disabilities.