Monday, December 25. 2006

Maps by the Blind for the Blind

Rachel Magario, a grudate student at Kansas University, is drawing on her experiences learning her way around campus as a blind student to help others. With a $5000 grant from the school's Endowment and support from the geography faculty and staff she's exploring how to create maps of the campus, which does not have square blocks like here native Sao Paulo. Her perception of campus, her mental map, is quite different from the reality. The challenge is how to make the map useful for others, allowing for the fact that they too will have a different mental map.

- Lawrence Journal World (Kansas)

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