The BARD app from today’s lecture fascinates me a lot even though I’ve never encountered someone who’s visual impaired. It offers so many functions! One thing I’m concerning about is that is the app free and how what the database for books. The function can only tell how easy to use the app, but the major focus of such app should be the content.
For different SSIs such as visual/hearing impairment, people should work separately and create their own method of sensing the world around us, since they are two very different thing to be treated. As told in the podcast, someone who’s a hero in blind people, is a terrible figure in hearing disability people. That’s not correct. People do not need consensus in such area, but should put effort in communities divided by their categories.Braille for people cannot see, and some visualized thing for deaf people, that’s what they need to work out.
So here comes the haptics. Haptics are less privileged because both impaired people communities can utilize its feature, rather than generating hate in between. However, haptics are less convenient in many ways. It’s still a problem for people to solve.