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Deliverable: Part 1
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This is a racing board game that each character’s role represents different people in real life. Savage represents people without mobility problems and is willing to help others. The rider represents people with mobility issues, and the bard is the elders. A game must have a winner, but I want people to cooperate, and the team that cooperates better will take the title. My purpose in making Flat Earth is to increase social awareness, and board games are something that people could share with family members so that parents can teach their children while playing.
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There are 18 event cards in the Flat Earth. Each card has different effect and the player could expect some accidents through the gameplay. It might a good event which would help the player to win. And there is some cards will bring bad fortune to the player. Just like how the life will go.
I want to add some unpredictable element to the Flat Earth. It will make every game has unique experience, because the Flat Earth is a racing game, and the game map will not change too much, so the event card will have the ability to change the game.
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Wheel Your Way
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Concept
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The wayfinding apps would never tell me if the trip contains stairs or hills or anything that could make me in trouble because these apps analyze our environment in 2D, but the real world is 3D. Back in the year 2005, there were scientists tested a system called Geographic Information System to analyze the map in 3D. They used professional scanners to collect data needed for calculations, and users could access it through computers. It is complicated but the result of the experiment is positive and effective. Now, it is 2022. The cell phone is like a portable computer in our pocket, and some of them have a LiDAR scanner that can use to scan the surroundings. The required data for the GIS to work can be scanned with our cell phone and uploaded to the cloud server for further analysis. It takes forever to change the entire environment, but an advanced wayfinding app built on GIS could be an easy solution to benefit people with mobility problems. There are many wayfinding apps we can use, but not even one has a function designed for people with mobility problems. The lacked social responsibility is due to the lacked social awareness. Thus, providing a solution to the existing problem is important, but the importance of increasing social awareness should never be ignored.
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Part 1: Disability
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Houtenville, A. B. (2019, December 31). 2019 annual report on people with disabilities in America. Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire. Retrieved November 24, 2021, from https://eric.ed.gov /?id=ED605685.
University of New Hampshire. (n.d.). Annual Report On People With Disabilities In America 2020. Annual Disability Statistic Compendium. Retrieved 2021, from https://disabilitycompendium.org/.
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When I was reading these two reports together and then compare the datas on the same subject between disabled people and people without disabilities. The gaps, especially the education ratio and the employment ratio are showing a truth that people with disabilities have less opportunities compare to people without disability on getting educated and look less likely to got employed. Also, the gap in income is remarkable.
In order to improve the condition for people with disabilities, the government’s effort is necessary and possiblely the most influential. The data we see on the research result is no more than just number, but the real life is not statistic number, each one means a living person who is having trouble right now. Although the number is not everything when deliver or provide help to people with disabilities, but it is a good start point for me to have a overall view of the current condition.
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From both of the two charts, it is clear that though the overall percentage of people with disabilities that has a diploma less than high school drops from 2018 to 2019, but the gap between people with disabilities and without disabilities does not change and kept as 9%.
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Compare to the 9% differentiation with the data on high school diploma, the gap on the employment ratio is huge which reached 39.8%. From year 2008 to 2019, the gap on employment ratio between people with/without disabilities did not improve much. This might be an evidence that our society is lacking supporting to people with disabilities.
Davis, C., Tauke, B., & Smith, K. (2016). Diversity and design understanding hidden consequences. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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This book contains multiple case studies on different situation. And the key here is to tell the importance of the hidden imformation behind the scenes when landing a project.
In chapter 5, the chapter I grabbed in, it discussed a case of a project in public space in Canada. It shows the importance for designers to investigate not only on their computer but also off-screen. There is always imformation that we will miss on screen. It also discussed how the designers consider people with disabilities as the mainstream of society.
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The start point of the Regent Park when the project was annouced in Canada was providing housing support to low-income populations. The importance of public service provided by the government or large corporations could bring huge impacts to our society, no matter if it is a positive or negative.
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At the first time when the government developed the regent park project, they did not dig deep into the site, and designed the buildings on “what the market needs”. They absorb the failure and when they rebuild the regent park, the residents actually lead the project. As well as data shows in their investigation that nearly 25% of the Regent Park population had disability, and this number also the same in my questionnaire.
Cochran, A. L. (2020). Impacts of COVID-19 on access to transportation for people with disabilities. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 8, 100263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. trip.2020.100263
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This article mentioned that during this pandemic, people with disabilities have a higher risk to get infected compare to the others. It is the result of they require help on the access to public transportation.
In other words, the current supports provided by the public transportation system is not good enough, and this forced people with disabilities have to seek help from others or the staff in the station to get to their destination.
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Including the public transportation system and the Regent Park case, it is important for designers or planners to include the needs of poeple with disabilities at the early stage of designing a system. I believe that COVID-19 pandemic revealed problems that we have been ignored for a long time, and this also provide us a opportunity to fix it now.
Amanze, J. N., & Nkomazana, F. (2020). Disability is not inability: A quest for inclusion and participation of people with disability in society. Mzuni Press.
Disability is not INABILITY
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The book “Disability is not INABILITY” is somehow similiar to “Design and Diversity“. Both of these two books discussed a number of case studies and analyzed these cases for conclusion for future improvement.
In Chapter 5, “Physical Challenges and Accessibility of Public Spaces”. There it talks about some physical environmental barriers for people with disabilities, and one of them is that the accessible facilities are often not well maintained and properly repaired, and this result in the facility not being functional. And it makes me think if the wayfinding system could update the environmental information quickly, then it could save a lot of time for people with disabilities.
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The need for wayfinding system designed for people with disabilities could fix the this situation so that they no longer need to ask for help in order to access to some place. Although 75% in the population are people without disabilities, the 25% is more than just number as I said earlier.
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Lack of maintenance of accessible facilities are no more than waste money. These facilities built using tax payer’s money to provide benefit to our society, but a non-functional facility makes all of the efforts gone just in a second.
Special Needs and Disabilities. (2021). Education Journal Review, 27(1), 98–102.
Special Needs and Disabilities
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This article discussed primary and secondary schools are lack of providing services to students who have special needs or disabilities. And this is a very recent article, which makes me think how many facilities were only built to accomplish government requirements?
Just like what I brought from “Disability is not inability“, the lack maintaince on accessible facilities are making people with disabilities experience even worse: when they thought there should be an accessable facility but left only trash.
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Financial condition is one “must consider“ element when developing an accessible project. To understand this, the report on “People with disabilities in America“ shows that people with disablities usually has lower income compare to people without disablities, as well as the lower employment ratio.
一席YiXi. (2021, October 29). 我们在这条路上总共找到了543 个盲人的心烦点，他们最绝望 的时候是走到立交桥下: 茅明 睿. 我们在这条路上总共找到了 543个盲人的心烦点，他们最绝 望的时候是走到立交桥下 | 茅明 睿. Retrieved November 24, 2021, from https://mp.weixin. qq.com/s/cdkoyamBMU5Qj6EU6CsQzQ.
We found 543 spots on this road that bother blind people
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This is a research done by a NGO in China. They studied and followed people with visual disability on their daily routine. And the result of this experiment shows that for people with visual disability, the safe road for most of us, will be more difficult than we could imagine.
My take point from their experiment is that they used distant sensor and a sound devices to annouce there is something block the way in order to keep people with visual disability away from unknown dangerous.
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Specific difficulties which will be trouble for people with disabilities are usually different to people without disabilities. Barriers to block bycicles, unstable ground, steep hills, etc. For people without disabilities, those BLOCKS are nothing because we can just go across it with our feet. Those parts could be easily ignored when developing accessible projects.
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Main entrance at LACMA
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Museum, in definition is “a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are store and exhibited.“. Museum is usually eductional, especially public museum. The resources provide to the open public should be accessible in many ways, including people with disabilities.
LACMA, as one of the public museum in Los Angeles, I think it should be a place which provide the most accessible supports to people with disabilities, especially my target user, the wheelchair/stroller users.
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As a public place, LACMA does provide accessible facilities at both of indoor and outdoor. On the left is the ticket office at LACMA, and what I noticed here is the different height of the two windows at the left. The lower height and table extends to the outside which combined together created a wheelchair friendly environment for wheelchair users. The eye level for people who is using wheelchair is much lower than the others. This is another point I consider as a part of the accessible environment. This might seen small but it is important, and even LACMA does not fully achieve this.
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Ticket Office at LACMA
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Inside of LACMA
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In some floors at the LACMA, the height of the artworks are presented at a lower eye level which is friendly to wheelchair users or people whose height is lower than the average height of adults. Since the public museums should be open to the general public, then at the planning stage, the needs of the minority groups should be consider.
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Touchless auto door opening switch. This is a good design especially under this pandemic, which we have to wash our hands frequently. This stand provides two switches in different heights. With this kind of accessible facility, I am getting confused of why there is no sign to the accessible entrance.
