Universal Design for Enhancing Accessibility of the Visually Impaired in Touristic Environments

Arce-Lopera, Carlos; García, Juan Jiménez; Montoya, Camilo; Giraldo, Jose

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20227-9_48

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“…Understanding and actively using architectural space in conditions of permanent visual impairment are significantly difficult. Due to qualitative and quantitative perceptual and cognitive deficiencies, blind people struggle with significant disorders of spatial orientation [1], which then significantly affect mobility and cause locomotion difficulties [2,3]. Natural aversion and the fear of non-visual exploration of the architectural environment are additionally intensified by the barriers present in the space.…”

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“…Over the next decades, in scientific theory, issues in the field of typhlography were developed completely beyond the scientific boundaries of architecture, which explains their insufficient popularisation among architects. Scientific attempts to implement the issue on the ground of architecture have been undertaken by very few Polish scientists [3,11]. Among them, A. Kłopotowska made broader attempts to identify and strengthen this subject in the field of architecture.…”

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Tactile Architectural Drawings—Practical Application and Potential of Architectural Typhlographics

Kłopotowska

Magdziak

2021

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The subject of research conducted by the team from the Bialystok University of Technology is architectural typhlographics—a kind of specialised tactile drawings dedicated to people with visual impairments. The aim of the publication is to present the specificity of this type of architectural graphics and to indicate the areas of its usefulness. Based on professional experience, available thematic literature, as well as specialist consultations, the authors made a multi-criteria analysis and valorisation of the obtained set of examples of architectural typhlographs. The result of the research is to indicate the main fields of current application, and to outline the potential and possible directions of further development of tactile architectural drawings. The specifics of the examined graphics are also presented, including their functionality, possible forms of representations and differences from typical architectural representations. The historical background of the typhlographics as well as the main principles of their creation are presented, as the supplement and basis for the author’s considerations. The research also showed the broad utility and social values of architectural typhlographs and the priorities for their further development.

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Tactile Architectural Drawings—Practical Application and Potential of Architectural Typhlographics

Kłopotowska

Magdziak

2021

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Universal Design for Enhancing Accessibility of the Visually Impaired in Touristic Environments

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Tactile Architectural Drawings—Practical Application and Potential of Architectural Typhlographics

Tactile Architectural Drawings—Practical Application and Potential of Architectural Typhlographics

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