• Read: Blind Eye for the Sighted Guy
• “Hands”, 1998 excerpt.
• In about 500 words, write about a curiosity portal that you have (or might’ve come across in your life).
• Think/Consider: Why do you think it is a curiosity portal? Where is it located? Is it accessible?

Read: Blind Eye for the Sighted Guy

• the quality of one’s accessibility tools has a direct impact on the quality of one’s life.
• good access tools needed to be designed by someone who truly understood how and why they would be used.
• “That’s interesting, but blind people don’t really need that,” or “Actually, that already exists,” or “Have you talked to any blind people about this?”

my take: the user understand their own pain point the best. it’s like they have their own torch through what’s important what’s not.

“Hands”, 1998 excerpt.

• two radically different tasks ably undertaken by the human hand: slow movement, high forces; rapid movement, low forces.

Curiosity Portal Reflections

I find many interactive installations without explicit instruction my common curiosity portal. Makes me want to make a guess on how to interact with them; expect a feedback and see what’s going to happen next. If an installation reminds me of previous experiences (say look like an everyday tool or make me feel predictable), I lost interest quickly.

Or if it’s a common everyday thing but malfunctioned into something else, that makes me curious too. I like the balance of predictable and unpredictable: too predictable is boring, too unpredictable is hopeless.

Human beings make me curious too. I like to observe how people handle situations, if their way is creative/interesting/uncommon I start to be curious about how they come up with it and how they function.