A world of chaos for the blind that people didn't know about
My project was motivated by the difficulties that blind people face every day due to the misuse of braille. While everyday situations may not present any challenges for non-disabled individuals, for the visually impaired, even leaving a building can be difficult. The goal was to provide users with an experience that allows them to understand the difficulties faced by visually impaired individuals, such as ZENA, the protagonist in this app, as they navigate their way home, and to create a sense of awareness and empathy.
Misuse of braille can cause greater confusion for people with visual impairments. One real-life example of braille misuse that I show in my app is elevator buttons. If you rotate the up button 180 degrees, the button shape becomes one that points downwards. There are actually many cases where people place the buttons in the wrong orientation, guessing rather than following the correct braille code.
Although I had some knowledge of these issues from a visually impaired YouTuber I follow, creating this app allowed me to fully comprehend the severity of these problems and even made me fearful of my future if I were to become visually impaired. I hope that people will indirectly experience this sense of caution and empathy through my app.
Six Dots๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ์๊ฐ์ฅ์ ์ธ ์ ํ๋ฒ ์์ทํ์๋์ ์์์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์๋ชป ํ๊ธฐ๋๋ ์ ์๋ค๋ก ์ธํด ๋๋ผ๋ ํผ๋, ๋ถ์, ๋นํน์ค๋ฌ์ ๋ฑ์ ๋๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ตฌ์ํ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. Six Dots๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ ์ ์๋ชป ํ๊ธฐํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ์๊ฐ์ฅ์ ์ธ๋ค์ด ๋งค์ผ ๊ฒช๋ ์ด๋ ค์์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ฅ์ ์ธ๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ์ผ์ ์์ ์๋ฌด ์ด๋ ค์์ด ์์ ์ ์์ง๋ง, ์๊ฐ์ฅ์ ์ธ์๊ฒ๋ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ ๋๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์กฐ์ฐจ๋ ์ด๋ ค์ธ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์์. ์ด ์ฑ์ ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต์ธ ์๊ฐ์ฅ์ ์ธ ZENA์ ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ ๊ธธ์ ํจ๊ปํ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ๊ฒช๋ ์ด๋ ค์์ ์ฌ์ฉ์๋ค์ด ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝํํ๊ณ , ์ธ์๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋ถ๋ฌ์ผ์ผํค๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ชฉํ์์ต๋๋ค.
์ ์๋ฅผ ์๋ชป ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ฉด ์๊ฐ์ฅ์ ์ธ๋ค์๊ฒ ํฐ ํผ๋์ ์ผ๊ธฐํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ง์ ์ด๋ฌํ ์๋ก, ์๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ดํฐ ๋ฒํผ์ ์ ์ดํด๋ณด์ธ์. ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฒํผ์ 180๋ ํ์ ํ๋ฉด ์๋์ชฝ์ ๊ฐ๋ฆฌํค๋ ๋ชจ์๊ณผ ๊ฐ์์ง๋๋ค. ์ ์๊น์ง๋์. ์ค์ ๋ก ์ ๋๋ก ์ ์์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ฒํผ์ ๋ฐฐ์นํ์ง ์๊ณ ๋น์ฅ์ ์ธ์๊ฒ ๋์ถฉ ๋ง์ถ๊ธฐ๋ง ํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค.
์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ชจ์ด๋ฉด ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ด๋ค ํด๊ฒฐ๋ฐฉ์๋ณด๋ค ์ํฅ์ ๋ง์ด ๋ฏธ์น๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. Six Dots๊ฐ ์กฐ๊ธ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ ์์ ๋ํด ๊ด์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฒ ๋๋ ๊ณ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY2yq6vh-M0&t=3s
- Braille Neue credits Kosuke Takahashi
- Swetha Mylavarapu(@sweatha04) on Figma
- Image by Australian Braille Authority
- Images from Freepik https://www.freepik.com/