Haptic Prototype Assembly Tool for Non-Sighted, Visually Impaired and Fully Sighted Design Students, Studying at a Distance – LO

The haptic rendered interface was designed to facilitate a prototype design process for non-sighted – visually impaired and fully sighted distance learners from The Open University.

The parameters examined were

(a) Duration – measured against an industry standard time taken to assemble a four block prototype, and

(b) Collision rate – caused by participant between colliding with 3D geometric block during assembly.

The results showed that the duration data was within the accepted industry standard, of 5 minutes, and there was little significant difference between duration and collision rate between-groups, indicating that the haptic and designed interface had offered an open accessible tool to both NS-VI as well as FS design students.