Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Beyond photographs: A design exploration of multisensory memorabilia for visually impaired people (30 Aug 2005) As part of the future photography work in HP Labs we carried out an inclusive design exercise with the visually impaired. We wanted to know how such people remember and discuss the past without recourse to photographs, and to use this knowledge to generate design concepts for non-visual memory aids. The exercise resulted in two surprising insights. First, we found that a major user need for people losing their sight with age, is for technology which can help them recover visual memories from their existing photograph collections. Second, we discovered a world of multi-sensory memorabilia that are used by sighted and blind people alike, to trigger memories and talk about the past. These insights were then used to inspire ten design concepts presented in the report. Article URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2005/HPL-2005-151.html Read 130 more articles from HP Labs sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Call and Response: Handling RFP Tension     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy