Impaired Vision Experience

Using an ATM machine and feeling it to find the numbers 

One experiment was to read an article through a plastic bag

We had to wear glasses with rubbing cream on them. This is a photo with the glasses on and the glasses off.  

As a class we have to do a vision impaired test, so we can see what are important things to have in an environmental space for the visually impaired person. The reason for doing this is because our current project is designing a residential space for a person who is visually impaired. On thing that I realized through all the experiments was that there are several different types of impaired vision and that it should be a goal in all designs that it should always be accommodated. I have two uncles that are fully blind and the accommodations for someone that is fully blind and vision impaired are different. When I was walking through the halls with the glasses with rubbing cream on them I was depending on the lights in the room.  Lighting is really important and smooth surfaced floors. It would be difficult to live with impaired vision so as designers it is important for us to accommodate for the vision impaired.