Arts & Design Department

Íris Carlota

BA Design Student (Fashion Design)

Jessika D’Angelo

BA Design Student (Digital Media)

Rafael Cirino

BA Design Student (Digital Media)

Patrícia Carrion

MA in Design Candidate

visually impaired

285,000,000

Number of people that are estimated to

be visually impaired worldwide

(World Health Organization, August 2014)

(World Health Organization, August 2014)

normal vision

moderate visual

impairment

severe visual

impairment

blindness

6 people were interviewed

Who are they?

What do they like to do?

Which challenges

do they face?

What we found out

This is Aline

severely visually impaired

Our insights

What they said

“Most of the tools designed to keep

memory rely on vision.”

What they said

“My memory is like a photo album to me.”

What they said

“The Eiffel Tower means nothing to me.

The most important is what I’ve done there.”

How to remember

fully sighted

places & events

visual tools

places & events

visual tools

How to remember

visually impaired

Opportunity

There is so much more to memorythan only visual aspects.

What is memory to you?

Remembering is our way of treasuring our past.

What is MESH?

PlatformWearable device

What does MESH do?

Capture and relive

sensations

Share and discover memories

to and from others

How to capture

Tap to activateVoice

Skin temperature Heart beat

How to relive

“Relive my memory”

“April 15, 2012”

“Rio de Janeiro”

Tap to activate

Search By location By dateBy user

“Relive memories randomly”

How to share

“Share on Facebook”

“Tag Maria Bonelli”

Shared directly to

someone’s MESHShare on social networks

Tap to activate

So, MESH is for whom?

For everybody!