Challenge 6
Assistive Aids for Macular Degeneration
A sensitive and thoughtful presentation on Macular Degeneration.
Talking electronic devices/software, electronic books, mindmapping, talking calculator, voice recognition software, word scanners and scanners with OCR would be some example of assistive aids.
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(Co-Host Sandy represents pillaging and plundering and rifling and looting and swashbuckling and sipping grog discreetly)
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informative; good choice
Good work, Global Voice! Your choice of macular degeneration was unique and interesting. I agree with Ann Lu: you guys definitely did your research, organized your information & referenced appropriately. I would have liked to see some more description & documentation about how your actual simulation went. Surely you didn't try actually DRIVING while wearing the lotion-smeared googles, but what *did* you try to do? I would also have appreciated some concrete solutions or examples of how universal design would help someone with macular degeneration.
Your score was brought down by limited (if any?) generation of dialogue...
Congrats on hanging in there & showing steady improvement over the past 6 weeks!
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No Actual Driving
We didn't actually drive with the smeared glasses, but we did sit in the drivers seat of a parked car, trying to look out of the windshield. The images in the presentation are mere representations of what we saw while performing a particular activity.
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An interesting take. It
An interesting take. It would have been really cool if you'd smeared a camera lense and had some footage, but then, maybe not so cool for the camera lense itself.
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Je représente la France dans la Ligue des Notions
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Nailed it.
As far as the primary requirement of this challenge goes, I think you guys did a fantastic job of fulfilling what was expected. By the end of the presentation, I felt very well informed about what it must be like to have Macular Degeneration. As simple as it was, your blurred screen mockups totally did the trick.
Of course, after experiencing that, I wished you would have also told me HOW TO PREVENT IT! Instead, you've left me living in perpetual fear of contracting this horrible disease.
Hmmmm... is that a central blurry spot in the middle of my monitor??? Ack! No wait, it's just a glob of strawberry jam from my toast this morning...
I'm never going to be a big fan of the Traditional Powerpoint Presentation, especially how it encourages presenters to blast out page after page of god-awful "bullet point" sentence fragments. Plus, the slides just look plain boring. But that's my own personal hangup. Fortunately, I was able to decipher what you were trying to say (even in the absence of proper verb/noun constructs).
Any chance I could borrow those lotioned-goggles next time the Maple Leafs are playing? I think I'd rather not see what's happening to their playoff chances...
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I Can See Clearly Now...
...that I've stopped looking through smeared goggles. Actually, it reminded me of my own glasses when they get dirty.
As someone with glaucoma, I found this submission struck close to home. Our vision is certainly one of our most precious, yet disregarded, gifts.
Global Voice, your submission was adequate, but could have been so much better. Voice narration would have been better than text bullets. More graphics would have helped, especially since this is all about visuals. I would have liked to see the simulation examples follow directly after the "normal" ones for maximum contrast and effect. It would also have been nice to have more of a "clincher" ending slide.
Not a bad effort, just not a great one, either.
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It shows that you guys did
It shows that you guys did your research! How long did the team member walk around with the modified goggles for? Kudos to you. It would drive me up the wall if I lost my central vision. I'm a very visual person so not seeing really bugs me.