
SIMULATING VISION LOSS:WHAT LEVELS OF
IMPAIRMENT ARE ACTUALLY REPRESENTED?
Joy Goodman-Deane, Sam Waller,
Alice-Catherine Collins & P. John Clarkson
Engineering Design Centre, Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge, UK
Capability loss simulators give designers a brief experience of some
of the functional effects of capability loss. They are an effective
method of helping people to understand the impact of capability
loss on product use. However, it is also important that designers
know what levels of loss are being simulated and how they relate to
the user population. The study in this paper tested the Cambridge
Simulation Glasses with 25 participants ...