Xiaoyang's ITP Life

Sometimes I liked to close my eyes and try to see how far I can go, but it really scared me everytime. I think I need to build confident to walk far. So in todays project, I closed my eyes, to learn experience of a blind person. I wrote a dairy in my laptop with ‘voice over’ turned on, listen to iTune music, played LEGO for about 4 hours(really need patience), successful went to bathroom(of course sit to pee, easier!). It’s a fun experience, hope anyone can give it a try. Here is the Dairy I typed with my eyes closed.

4-in-4 Day 4
In today’s project, I decide to close my eyes for 6 hours. I want to let my eyes have winter special break also. And this will be my first time I intend to close my eyes for this long. Since I prepared everything on my table, I don’t feel scared as I expected, maybe I haven’t start to learn how to walk(or meet any failure). I can do very limit thing on my computer, like listen to music from itune or pandora.com, but I don’t know the how to choose one. The voice over function is very helpful, I’m using it to guide me type now. I learned I need to type very carefully, make as less problem as possible, because once I made mistake, I need to listen what I delete,find the right position, and start to type agin. The way you listen to delete words i like to read a word backward. This is also one weird thing Ilearned of typing today. And I just realised the voice over is very smart. When I typed ‘learnd’ instead of ‘learned, the system know it is not right, so when delete from the back, the voice over will read out misspelling d’. Isn’t SMART! Also, if you turn on the’capital’ key, when you type the system will rea out the letter in an excited voice. The next thing I did is playing LEGO. I had a LEGO box of different parts. I have to classify all the parts first by touch. Then, I can figure out what kind of shapes I can build. I decide start with building a car. To make it more fun, I build 3 layers on it. It needs lots ofPATIENCE. I remembered I rebuilded 4 times for the base. Every time I only need to adjust a little bit. I spend about 4 hours on it. Sometimes I dropped parts on the floor, I can know the basic area to find because of the dropping sound; sometimes I can recognize people by nose. I know petra came around by recognizing her perfume. The things different from normal people is I need to use my brain to memorize everything, which is so different from memorizing pictures. Our eyes are so powerful, we rely on it too much. When I start to walk to the bath room, about 20 meters away. I can’t walk straight. I’m alittle scared. I think I knew I won’t get hurt and all my friends are not far away, I can call for help at any time.And I made it.But I waled really careful. Seems like everything slowed down. and feels more lonely and not confidentableTo feel the world as a blind person, II think people who can’t see, needs more tolerence from society.

LEGO Car: