Visually Impaired Persons’ Preference for the Shape and Texture of Mobile Phones

• Main Authors: Ying-Liang Kuo, 郭盈良
• Other Authors: Chih-Hsiang Ko
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35679019351432989928

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 設計研究所 === 96 === Visually impaired persons are always categorized as a disadvantaged group in society. The goal of this research was to help this group of consumers to improve the inconvenience of using mobile phones to achieve the ideal of a barrier-free society. First of all, the level of visually impaired persons were collected and analyzed to verify the difference in vision. Secondly, the literature and relative products were surveyed to design questionnaire and to carry out in-depth interview with target subjects. Consequently, the purposes of this research were as followed. (1) To investigate visually impaired persons’ preference for mobile phone shape. (2) To verify visually impaired persons’ preference for mobile phone texture. (3) Summing up research results, visually impaired persons’ preferred factors for mobile phone were proposed. The results showed that visually impaired persons preferred a top wide and bottom narrow shape. This shape helped the subjects to identify the correct direction. The preference for texture was flannelette and leather. It showed that the subjects preferred softer material. Meanwhile, the subjects in the interview preferred foldable mobile phones. The main reason was that foldable mobile phones could be instinctively recognized as on or off without learning. On the issue of material, the subjects preferred fashionably designed shape and material because they could have common conversation with their friends.