The deployment of adaptive digital navigation at ISU is a social project,
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:46 am
Irkutsk State University has implemented an adaptive digital navigation system for visually impaired and blind students. For this category of students, smart stickers with NFC technology have been placed near the doors of the educational buildings, which allow them to obtain the necessary information. This was reported by the university's press service.
The pilot sites of the project were two educational buildings, where the Department of Humanitarian and Aesthetic Education of the Pedagogical Institute, the Institute of Social france whatsapp number database Sciences and the Geological Faculty are located. The stickers are placed according to GOST at the most convenient height of 140 cm. When pointing a smartphone camera at them, in which each visually impaired person usually sets the font size he needs, a short informative video "floats up" with the numbers of classrooms, the names of auxiliary rooms - laboratories, deans' offices, departments. The video sequence is accompanied by audio descriptions - this is a soundtrack. ISU student Elizaveta Olkhovskaya also became the voice of the project.
"The concept of developing an accessible environment in education today occupies the absolute top topics for discussion at all levels of state policy. The topic of inclusion at Irkutsk State University today is a conversation not only about an accessible environment, but also the active inclusion of students with different health capabilities in business processes already at the stage of forming a professional path," noted the director of the Irkutsk State University Center for Inclusion Development Nadezhda Aksamentova.
where the university is acting as a testing ground for the idea of its student Ilya Zuev, a second-year student at the Institute of Social Sciences. He defended his idea in November at the Take and Do social entrepreneurship forum, and in December 2023, together with the University's Center for Inclusion Development, he managed to incorporate it into the overall concept for the development of an accessible environment at ISU. Ilya Zuev notes that stickers with NFC technology are accessible and understandable navigation that can become an alternative solution to other tactile and visual means:
"Since I am also a trainer in mobile literacy for blind people, I am sure that using all the functions of a smartphone in the daily life of people with visual impairments is a necessity. In this case, NFC technology allows you to quickly and correctly recognize the number of the classroom. Also, the effect of adaptation to the new architectural environment of the educational building is very important here, when a blind person has the ability to independently recognize his location," said the author of the project.
The Irkutsk State University Center for Inclusion Development provides the project with all possible methodological and organizational support for its implementation at the university. Currently, the center is carrying out comprehensive work to develop an accessible environment in two educational buildings where students with visual impairments study.
"We are not only creating the architecture of an accessible environment. We are actively working with the student community and with the university's support staff. It is important not only to place smart stickers with NFC technology, it is much more important to talk about who they are for and what they give to people with visual impairments," concluded Nadezhda Aksamentova.
The pilot sites of the project were two educational buildings, where the Department of Humanitarian and Aesthetic Education of the Pedagogical Institute, the Institute of Social france whatsapp number database Sciences and the Geological Faculty are located. The stickers are placed according to GOST at the most convenient height of 140 cm. When pointing a smartphone camera at them, in which each visually impaired person usually sets the font size he needs, a short informative video "floats up" with the numbers of classrooms, the names of auxiliary rooms - laboratories, deans' offices, departments. The video sequence is accompanied by audio descriptions - this is a soundtrack. ISU student Elizaveta Olkhovskaya also became the voice of the project.
"The concept of developing an accessible environment in education today occupies the absolute top topics for discussion at all levels of state policy. The topic of inclusion at Irkutsk State University today is a conversation not only about an accessible environment, but also the active inclusion of students with different health capabilities in business processes already at the stage of forming a professional path," noted the director of the Irkutsk State University Center for Inclusion Development Nadezhda Aksamentova.
where the university is acting as a testing ground for the idea of its student Ilya Zuev, a second-year student at the Institute of Social Sciences. He defended his idea in November at the Take and Do social entrepreneurship forum, and in December 2023, together with the University's Center for Inclusion Development, he managed to incorporate it into the overall concept for the development of an accessible environment at ISU. Ilya Zuev notes that stickers with NFC technology are accessible and understandable navigation that can become an alternative solution to other tactile and visual means:
"Since I am also a trainer in mobile literacy for blind people, I am sure that using all the functions of a smartphone in the daily life of people with visual impairments is a necessity. In this case, NFC technology allows you to quickly and correctly recognize the number of the classroom. Also, the effect of adaptation to the new architectural environment of the educational building is very important here, when a blind person has the ability to independently recognize his location," said the author of the project.
The Irkutsk State University Center for Inclusion Development provides the project with all possible methodological and organizational support for its implementation at the university. Currently, the center is carrying out comprehensive work to develop an accessible environment in two educational buildings where students with visual impairments study.
"We are not only creating the architecture of an accessible environment. We are actively working with the student community and with the university's support staff. It is important not only to place smart stickers with NFC technology, it is much more important to talk about who they are for and what they give to people with visual impairments," concluded Nadezhda Aksamentova.