THE LAST MILE
For the blind and visually impaired, wayfinding in public places is getting easier thanks to new touch-responsive talking maps and models. By Steve Landau, Heamchand Subryan, and Edward Steinfeld
40 — eg magazine
At Carroll Center for the Blind, the talking model was the first of a series of three touch-responsive maps. It can sense the locations of touches on its plastic surface, then announces information about the feature that was touched.