Co-Designing Auditory Navigation Solutions for Traveling as a Blind Individual During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Brandon Biggs, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

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Project Citation: 

Biggs, Brandon. Co-Designing Auditory Navigation Solutions for Traveling as a Blind Individual During The COVID-19 Pandemic. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-08-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/E193186V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary A group co-design was held in March 2021 with six blind and visually impaired individuals (BVIs) from the US. Participants were asked to discuss problems related to travel during the COVID-19 pandemic and make recommendations for possible solutions. Two probes (prototypes) of a non-visual neighborhood travel map, and a non-visual COVID-19 choropleth map (a map using colors or sounds over each state to represent different values) of COVID-19 state data, were shown to participants for inspiration. Results were that participants revealed the mostly negative  impacts COVID-19 had on feeling greater risk when going out, traveling, interactions with strangers, communication, navigating to changed familiar environments, and wearing masks. Participants gravitated towards the need for information the probes provided, and made a number of observations and recommendations for improvement. They wanted more detailed geo-referenced COVID-19 data, including by county, information related to voting, a mobile app, and more detailed building information, such as doors on the travel map.
This data includes the initial set of codes created by the coders, intercoder reliability checks, final codes, categorized codes, category context and descriptions, themes, and participant demographic data.
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Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health (3R01EY029033-03S1); National institute on disability (90RE5024-03-00, 90IFDV0020-01-00, 90REGE0018)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms blindness; co-design; COVID-19; commuting (travel); Maps
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 3/29/2021 – 3/29/2021 (March 29, 2021)
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data; text

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source A 3 hour co-design was held remotely over Zoom in 2021.

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