Project Name:
VIBRaid
Visually Impaired Bus Roaming AID
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Duration:
August to October 2016
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Team:
Samuel Woo
Rachel Chan
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Overview:
VIBRaid, Visually Impaired Bus Roaming AID, is a bus timing application designed for the visually impaired. Catered for both partially blind and fully blind users, it aims to ease the process of taking a bus and eventually help them increase their self-reliance and independence.
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Design Process
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In Singapore, there is an estimated of 5000-6000 visually impaired persons, excluding unreported medical cases. There are many travelling applications out there in the market, but none that fo- cuses on the visually impaired.
How might we then, enable the visually impaired to travel with ease in an urban landscape?
After going through the Human-Centred Design Process and comparing it to other visually impaired-focused applications in the market ,we gathered our insights and started prototyping based on the opportunity spaces.
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Design Tools
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Understand: Design ethnography, site observations, interviews
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Ideate: Affinity Diagrams, storyboarding, sketching/idea dumping
Prototype: Wire-framing, on-site experimentation, quick and dirty prototypes
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Solution
Functionality: Nearby information, Bookmarked buses and bus stops, Search, Bus routes and GPS
Interface: Monochromatic, bright colours for high contrast, large words and icons, straightforward
Feedback response: Voice alerts that informs users through running notifications, coupled with vibrations and audio
