Improving Deafblind Travelers’ Experiences

Hersh, Marion

doi:10.1177/0047287514546225

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“…and MF: 'I rarely take notes in Braille, I remember'. In line with concerns about safety (though in this case personal safety) in the literature (Johnson and Petrie, 1998;Hersh, 2016), participants were careful about the type of device they used as a memory aide. BS: 'It is better not to use a phone, as it is not safe to get it out and it may not be in range.'…”

Section: Memory and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Route Learning by Blind and Partially Sighted People

Hersh¹

2020

JBIR

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The paper aims to fill an important gap in the literature by reporting on blind and partially sighted people's route learning experiences and strategies from their perspective. The existing literature has largely reported the results of experiments in indoor and outdoor often artificially created environments rather than real experiences of travel and route learning. The results presented here were obtained from semi-structured interviews with 100 blind and partially sighted people in five different countries. They show that they prefer to keep to known routes where possible, in line with the literature, but do not wish to be restricted to them. The paper discusses the conditions in which they consider it worth learning new routes and the strategies they use to do this. The paper is interpreted in a theoretical framework of independence, autonomy and selfdetermination, understood, in line with the disability literature, as making choices and decisions and having control, rather than necessarily doing everything oneself. A further contribution is a confirmation of the role of the (greater) memory of blind people in travel and a suggestion that the ability to develop memory may affect differences in travel skills. The paper concludes with several recommendations, including for further research.

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Section: Memory and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…I am better at working out where we are, so I lead. He hears normally, so he asks about bus numbers and repeats things for me, so I do not have to strain my ears' (Hersh, 2016) hhh EM = ethnic minority, DB = dual sensory impairment/deafblindness, PD = physically disabled…”

Section: Implications For Family Practitioners and Friendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Route Learning by Blind and Partially Sighted People

Hersh¹

2020

JBIR

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“…Entre as possíveis justificativas da falta de publicação em regiões específicas estão as barreiras de idioma, a falta de apoio de instituições de pesquisa e a necessidade de associação/parcerias entre pesquisadores de locais distintos. Sobre o último argumento, dos 140 artigos avaliados nos periódicos internacionais, 10 apresentaram estudos em mais de um país, isto é, estudos cross-country (CARLISLE et al, 2013;CHARTERS;FOUNTAIN;FISH, 2009;CORREIA;KOZAK, 2016;ES;REIJNDERS, 2016;HERSH, 2016;HOSANY et al, 2015;RITCHIE, 2014;GARTNER, 2013;PORIA, 2006;PREBENSEN;UYSAL, 2016). Em segundo lugar, no contexto internacional, percebe-se uma tendência de maior número de estudos temáticos, principalmente os que envolvem tipos particulares de motivações turísticas: Turismo Sombrio (Dark Tourism), Turismo de Animais Selvagens (Wildlife Tourism), Turismo de Peregrinação (Pilgrimage Tourism), Turismo Social (Social Tourism), Turismo Voluntário (Volunteer Tourism) e Turismo Sexual (Sex Tourism).…”

Section: Enfoque Da Unidade De Análise Nos Estudos De Experiência Turunclassified

Uma Revisão sobre Estudos de Experiência Turística (2005-2016)

Coelho

Gosling

2019

Caderno Virtual de Turismo

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Oferecer experiências em vez de serviços/produtos é um tópico que tem gerado atenção da academia e das organizações. As atividades turísticas possuem interseção com a experiência do visitante e o comportamento de consumo. Este trabalho tem o objetivo de revisar sistematicamente os estudos sobre a experiência turística. Para tanto, revisaram-se três periódicos de relevância nacional – Estudios y Perspectivas en Turismo (EyPT), Caderno Virtual de Turismo (CVT) e Revista Brasileira de Pesquisas em Turismo (RBTur) – bem como três periódicos de alto impacto internacional – Annals of Tourism Reserch (Annals), Tourism Management (TM) e Journal of Travel Research (JTR). As análises compreenderam três aspectos: i) métodos, ii) enfoque da unidade de análise e iii) abordagem da experiência dos artigos encontrados. Classificaram-se os estudos quanto à abordagem da experiência como: 1) vivência; 2) consumo; 3) transformações. Também são apontadas lacunas de pesquisa e orientações para pesquisas futuras.

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“…Signs of this type could easily prove dangerous. One of the recommendations arising out of previous research by the authors was that signs should always have two poles or supports to enable them to be detected by the long cane (Hersh, 2016). Problems were also experienced in detecting overhanging buildings at between chest and head height with part of the building jutting out without any masonry under it.…”

Section: Figure 6 -User Approaches a Phone Boxmentioning

confidence: 99%