Orientation using guidance surfaces: Blind tests of tactility in surfaces with different materials and structures
All over the world, trials are taking place to make it easier for visually impaired people to orientate themselves in the physical environment. Guidance routes are being constructed using materials with many different types of structures on their surfaces. In Sweden there is a preference for certain kinds of surfaces for use on guidance routes, though their usability has not been tested in documented studies. The overriding purpose of this project is to identify structures for guidance surfaces and hazard warning surfaces that are usable for blind people who use a long white cane to navigate and orientate themselves. (A) This document is also available electronically via Internet at URL: http://www.vv.se/filer/22306/2004_158e.pdf
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Authors:
- STAAHL, A
- ALMEN, M
- WEMME, M
- Publication Date: 2004
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 52p+app
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Serial:
- PUBLIKATION
- Issue Number: 2004:158E
- Publisher: VAEGVERKET
- ISSN: 1401-9612
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Blindness; Building materials; Chemical composition; Pavement design; Pedestrians; Persons with disabilities; Recommendations; Surfacing; Tactile perception; Tests; Variables; Warning systems
- Uncontrolled Terms: Guidance
- Geographic Terms: Sweden
- ITRD Terms: 2075: Blindness; 1726: Disabled person; 9104: Guidance; 4555: Material (constr); 3055: Pavement design; 1733: Pedestrian; 177: Specifications; 5937: Structure (physicochem); 2972: Surfacing; 8109: Sweden; 9120: Tactile; 6255: Test; 9086: Variability; 9113: Warning
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Research; Society; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01015344
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Jan 12 2006 8:59AM