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How would you design a clock for a blind person?
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How would you design a clock for a blind person?
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Speak-clock..hehe
Speak clock may not work since it’s possible the blind person(s) is/are deaf too. So vibration-clock fits we assume the persons who need a clock must at least have feeling.
Braille code!!!
Sheen is right. You are told to build a watch for blind. Dont’ think it for other persons but blinds. There are many types of disable person. A blind may have no feelins of touch. haha, then what will you do.
So think about the first solution.
I would design a clock with Brail Code, Self talk and vibration and with capabilities for disabling any of those features depending on the requirement. Since vibration is very difficult to design, they can be set aside in another version of the clock.
Will just remove the glass casing of the watch.
All of you are saying it right, but in your own ways. To let it be simple, the question is about ‘blinds’ only, so why to make it sophisticated!
Removing the glass cover is a nice idea, but I think there should be some more features: Instead of removing the lid we can put a lid that can be easily opened and closed. The Brail code is nice, but we can simply make the keys little thicker so that it’ll be easy to sense. In combination to this we can put a easy access button for sound.
Since they may be blind, deaf, lacking feeling, smell, etc., why not wire it directly into their brain? Just set up a few arrays of electrodes in the primary visual cortex (or any other primary sensory cortex) and they should be able to see the clock – can’t get better than that! Why not? They’re not using it anyway. A couple rings of electrodes (one for hour, one for minute, etc.) with a spacing of about 0.5 mm should do the trick.
I would say that, if we are designing a clock for blind people, how about increasing the tick-tick volume of the seconds hand….. So with the sense of noise… the blind man can walk towards the clock in a proper direction… (in case if it is a wall clock or table clock). Also I would set up an automated speaker system at every interval… lets say for 30 minutes.. so that the recorded voice says… “Its 10AM” after 30 minuts… “Its 10:30AM” and ssoo on… In the evening… before going to sleep, the blind men can walk towards the clock, and turn off that speaker system and turn on the alarm switch. so it would not disturb the whole night…. we can put volume as well as vibrations in the alarm. Make sure, we include a peculiar kind of alarm which makes him wake up and walk towards the clock… and start the automer time telling speaker for the rest of the day…..
Read the question.
I would:
Talk to blind people, and find out how they tell the time currently, and how they think it could be improved.
Using this information, id design a product, that complies with this.
Id then take this product design to the blind people and, possibly with a prototype test the product, get feedback and improve it.
Thats how id design a clock for blind people.
As for the design itself, thats another story
i would put bluetooth in the clock and give the blind person bluetooth headsets…so that he never misses time..and others in the room dont get disturbed.. xD
i design the talking clock for the blind. whether he can’t see clock, he can hear the voice.
speaking clock with maximum volume…
i design the clock for blind by attaching sensor and bluetooth facility with the normal wrist watch which provides time on demand by simply activating by using any button
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