Social media & visualisation.

The reality is that social networks have a great deal to offer us but there are groups that have been kept out of the circle due to media being mainly visual. If this barrier is overcome and obstacles dealt with, social networking for people who are visually impaired can be rewarding, fulfilling and fun.

2/3

of the people online use social media. This tells you how pervasive social media has become.

285 Million

people are visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision (severe or moderate visual impairment).

Touch sensitivity

is higher in those visually impaired as a sensoral compensation.

Air systems like this have been tested by Dennis Hong and his team for a driving project for the visually impared and proved that the air pressure change serves as a live video to detect and overcome any obsticles. This system implemented to social media could create a 3D reproduction of the depths in the image and create moving 3D live moving feed of the media content such as scrolling images and videos.

working System.

The individual tubes allow the control of the different air pressures throughout the device. This creates a field depth that allows the user to perceive the image or video depth in three dimensions.

Connect the device to your phone

Open your preferred social media platform

Start usind iHand by hovering your hand over the air grid

Air pressure grill
Syncronising button
Fan grill
Air extraction fans
Individual tubings to control air pressure