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project description
There are 285 million visually impaired people in the world, of which 246 million had low vision and 39 million were blind. Vision is primarily used to navigate in three-dimensional space, mobility is greatly affected by vision loss. There is a lack of help for visually impaired people to explore a museum through their senses. The aim to present a pleasant museum experience for visually impaired people (VIP).
problem statement
People who are considered to be severe vision and near-total vision have no options to experience the exhibition about WW2 and colonisation in Asia at Museon in the Hague, Netherlands, in the year of 2020. Museon promotes accessibility for all types of visitors but they do not have enough services or tools to make their exhibition accessible for visually impaired people currently. Both sighted and visually impaired visitors find it hard to navigate themselves in museum areas when the pleasant museum experience starts from a good navigation system and visitors understanding the space of exhibition.
design question
How to design a navigation tool or system to offer pleasant experience for visually impaired people (VIP) to be more accessible at the exhibition about the World War 2 and Colonisation in Asia?
client
Our client is Museon, who wants to include more visually impaired people (VIP) to their museum and to the society.