Autor(es):
Salgado, Ana Márcia Braga Osório Gomes 
; Magnus, Emanuele Biolo ; Cunha, Joana
Data: 2009
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/19157
Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Assunto(s): Brain paralyse; Children; Design
Descrição
The present work was developed taking as reference, studies in User Centred Design and Included Design and attending very specific necessities of a very specific public – target: kids holders of brain paralyse with low vision.
For the coherent development of this work, the collaboration with the institution that helps people with this type of deficiencies was quite important and decisive, because they turned the project viable, in a theoretical and practical way.
The starting point of the study was the lack in specific products which help children bearers with several deficiencies, on their daily evolution.
To respond to this necessity, several studies were developed with the intention of reaching a product that children could identify themselves in it and, above all, helping them in their orientation and learning.
The result was a creation of a Visual-Tactile Guide, to help children in their development through life with some pleasure and fun, and also, to help them becoming more autonomous.
It’s a product that can be applied in institutions, hospitals, clinics, but also, in daycares and at home. Although it is a product developed for kids with those specific necessities, other children can used it too.
