Our first project meeting was a brainstorming session where we made a small mind map of different impairments and the problems they cause. We then discussed possible solutions for different problems and opted out one impairment at a time until only three were left, Tourette’s syndrome, Parkinson’s disease and blindness.
Tourette’s syndrome is hard to make a good general design solution to since it is such a broad impairment type, which has many different problems that require different solutions. For that reason Tourette’s syndrome was also opted out of the discussion.
When it comes to Parkinson’s disease it is easy to only think about the shakes and muscle weakness that Parkinson’s is known for. But there is much more on the inside. These symptoms can be hard to reduce with a technical solution and should be treated with different methods.
We came up with an interesting thought to make a smartphone app that can help people with their daily life. The smartphones are filled with functions that should be able to help blind people. The smartphones can be controlled by voice with Siri or S-voice and location possibilities.
Blind man group consists of Conny Andersson, Jonatan Moritz and Mikael Svärdstrom
Non-excluding Design 