Archives for April 9, 2020

In this project, I want to create a webpage for the users to experience the daily life of a blind girl/boy, thus raising people’s awareness of the disabled.

I will first draw a map of the entire house that the blind girl/boy lives in. The map will be shown to the users as soon as they open the webpage, but it will fade out in ten seconds, (if possible, I would like to set a countdown here). Then the users will see only a webpage with a black background. And they will be given several tasks sequentially. For instance, go to the kitchen and boil some water, etc. And they have to rely on their memory to complete all the tasks. In the process, they will hear a lot of sounds like slow walking movements, drop a book, etc. They may feel weird at the beginning, but they will be given an answer that this is a normal day in a blind girl/boy’s life.

In this audio template, I put 9 pieces of audio in it, and I would like to briefly describe each of them in the following.

A1. the sound of boiling water / a long recording / might be used as part of the background sound / the whole process of water boiling

A2. the sound of a book falling / a short recording / can be used multiple times to show the difficulties the blind meet in his/her daily life

A3. the sound of opening a curtain / a short recording / might be used as a symbol of beginning a new day

B1. the sound of drinking water and taking pills / a long recording / can be used multiple times to give the audience hints that he/she is a blind

B2. the sound of the environment outside the window / a long recording / can be used as part of the background sound / especially can be played when the audience triggers the sound of opening the windows etc.

B3. the sound of pouring pills / a short recording / can be used before the sound B1 / a unique part in this sound is that after pouring out the pills, since he/she is blind, the way that he/she make sure the pills are in the correct quantity is to drop them one by one into another plate, and the extra one is put back into the pill bottle

C1. the sound of pouring water / a long recording / since he/she is blind, he/she cannot do this job in a fast speed / have to slowly move their hands and use tactile to sense where the bottle is / also an obstacle faced by the blind

C2. the sound of walk / a mid duration sound / the sound of hesitation and carefulness when walking / move really slowly

C3. the sound of washing dishes / a long duration recording / might need to be recorded separately later and composed together to show a better quality / can be used as another obstacle in the blind’s daily life

Here is the link for my audio template:

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~tz1422/AudioTemplate-Tina/