Proceedings of the International Conference of Heritage & Culture in Integrated Rural-Urban Context (HUNIAN 2019)

Cognition Map for the Visually Impaired Individuals in the Special School Type A (Case Study: SMP/SMALB A YPAB Surabaya)

Authors
Muhammad Satya Adhitama, Rizka Nur Afifah
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Muhammad Satya Adhitama
Available Online 30 July 2020.
DOI
10.2991/aer.k.200729.029How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Cognition map, visual impairment, senses
Abstract

Visually impaired individuals have limitations in vision to capture the information; thus, they have their uniqueness in performing cognition maps. This research is conducted to identify the cognition map by visually impaired individuals in SMP/SMALB A YPAB Surabaya. Based on initial observation, the school has not been designed according to the accessibility standard. Therefore, this research also aims to find out the elements used by visually impaired individuals in understanding their existing environmental conditions. The research uses a descriptive qualitative method by mapping the movement of the visually impaired people and the existing environmental data. The mapping is obtained by a person-centered mapping method with samples from the totally blind, low vision, and a group of blind students that moves without the help of others. Then, analysis is done on the linkage between movement patterns with existing environmental data. As a result, the cognition maps show a difference in the use of physical elements for totally blind, low vision, and group students. The totally blind and the group students primarily used a sense of touch from hands; the second is from the foot. Meanwhile, the low vision students still primarily used the sense of vision, not much with the sense of touch.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference of Heritage & Culture in Integrated Rural-Urban Context (HUNIAN 2019)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
30 July 2020
ISBN
10.2991/aer.k.200729.029
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/aer.k.200729.029How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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