Orientador: Edmea Rita Temporini Nastari / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T00:20:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mazzaro_JoseLuiz_D.pdf: 2658396 bytes, checksum: 487f4424a3fd3a436ffbd688bcdf7721 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Realizou-se um "survey" transversal, descritivo e analítico, com o objetivo de identificar conhecimentos e opiniões de professores e pais de alunos com baixa visão incluídos em escolas públicas da rede regular de ensino de Brasília (DF), em relação ao problema visual, equipamentos, sistemas, técnicas e recursos relacionados à deficiência visual e ao processo educacional, visando subsidiar programas de ensino de baixa visão. A população foi de 174 professores e 86 pais, compondo amostra não probabilística. Foram elaborados dois questionários estruturados, um auto-aplicável, respondido pelos professores e outro aplicado por entrevista aos pais. Para garantir a confiabilidade e a validade dos dados, os questionários foram submetidos a testes prévios. Em relação aos professores da população do estudo, predominaram os do sexo feminino (74,1%) e razoável experiência profissional. A maior parte (62,1%) lecionava pela primeira vez para alunos com baixa visão. A maioria (89,7%) deClarou formação superior completa e quase a totalidade (97,1%) que não possuía formação na área da deficiência visual, a maioria (73,0) não tinha recebido treinamento ou orientação nos últimos três anos. A maioria (73,0%) se auto-avaliou sem preparo para: lecionar para alunos com baixa visão e quase a totalidade (96,6%), dependência do professor especializado. Em relação à população dos pais, evidenciou-se ligeira predominância do sexo feminino (62,8%) e predomínio de baixa escolaridade. Pouco mais da metade (52,3%) não exerciam atividade remunerada e os que exe_ciam, eram atividades de baixa especialização. As causas da baixa visão mais apontadas pelos pais foram a toxoplasmose, a catarata e o glaucoma congênitos. Os familiares (53,%) foram os primeiros a suspeitarem de problema visual do filho, tendo ocorrido nos seis primeiros meses de vida. A maioria acreditava que o problema de visão dos filhos, atrapalhava para enxergar no quadro-negro, no caderno, na escrita e na leitura de livro. A maioria dos pais (73,1%), atribuíram a repetência escolar a outras dificuldades, tendo manifestado satisfação, com o atendimento da escola. Auto-avaliaram-se preparados para prestarem informações sobre a deficiência visual do filho. Os pais manifestaram conhecimento insuficiente sobre as limitações causadas pela deficiência visual e sobre as necessidades dos filhos, em relação a equipamentos, recursos e sistemas capazes de potencializar o uso da visão residual. Evidenciou-se que os professores manifestaram não apresentar conhecimentos suficientes para o desenvolvimento de trabalho pedagógico de qualidade com alunos que apresentavam baixa visão / Abstract: A descriptive and analytical cross-sectional survey was conducted, with the objective of identifying the knowledge and the opinions of teachers and parents of students with low vision in public schools of regular system of education in Brasília (DF), regarding the visual problem, equipment, systems, techniques and resources related to the visual deficiency and the educational process, aiming to subsidize programs of education in low vision. The population was of 174 teachers and 86 parents, consisting on a non-probabilistic sample. Two structuralized questionnaires had been elaborated: one auto-applicable, answered by the teachers, and another applied by interview with parents. To guarantee the trustworthiness and the validity of the data, the questionnaires had been submitted to previous tests. Concerning the teachers of the population of the study, the female sex predominated (74,1%) and also the ones with reasonable professional experience. The biggest part of them (62,1 %) taught students with low vision for the first time. The majority (89,7%) declared higher education and almost the totality (97,1%) didn't have vocational training in visual deficiency. The majority (73%) have not received . training or orientation in the last three years. Most of them had self-evaluated themselves without preparation to teach students with low vision and almost the totality (96,6%) of them depends on the support ofthe specialized teacher. Regarding the parents population, it was predominant the female sex (62,8%) with low leveI of education. A few more than a half(52,3%) didn't have income and the parents that did have ajob, had low specialization. Some examples of pointed causes for low vision by the parents were toxoplasmosis, cataract and the glaucoma congenital. The family members (53%) had been the ftrst ones to suspect of the visual problem of the child, occurring in the first six months of life. Most of them believed that the visual problem confused the child in seeing the blackboard, the notebook, in writing and in reading books. The majority of the parents (73,1%), had attributed failing at school to other difficulties, showing satisfaction with the attendance of school. Many parents had self-evaluated themselves prepared to give information of the visual deftciency of the sono The parents had revealed insufficient knowledge on the limitations caused by the visual deficiency and on the necessities of the children, regarding equipment, resources and systems capable of potentizing the use of the residual vision. lt was concluded that the teachers revealed insufficient knowledge for the development of a quality pedagogical work with low vision students / Doutorado / Ciencias Biomedicas / Doutor em Ciências Médicas

In the field of technology, every day new inventions are introduced in the society for promotion human beings life. By virtue of which all the citizens of society are facilitated according to their needs of life style. Most of the people from developed countries are benefited in all ways of life due to their nonstop efforts and struggle in the field of technology. However some are completely denied due to lack of awareness and lacking of technical education in the subject field. The handicapped people are not very well explored in each part of world, especially third world countries by the researchers. So we can claim it, for their weaknesses and so called interest to understand more about the handicapped people worldwide. To understanding about such people will provide us with opportunities to excel in the subfield. There is a big gap between the handicapped and society which causes to cut them off from society. This gap needs to be filled in, while carrying out researches in the desired fields. Our research area is related to ticket reservation machine for the visually impaired people, to make the process easy for them to buy ticket at their own from the ticketing machine. After studying different articles on the subject, it is proved that many inventions have already been done by researchers and others are in progress for helping out the handicapped people. We have presented screen prototypes of the interface of the ticketing machine for the visually impaired people. We collected many hardware devices as one kit which can be use in the machine for the visually impaired users. It will enhance their power of visual sense to perform tasks at their own. There are some principles to follow in building up any system for visually impaired or blind people. If followed these principles in true sense it will facilitate to make new interface designs for interaction with visually impaired or blind users in friendly way. In this way we can overcome the shortcomings between normal and visually impaired people, which will be a great achievement to serve the deprived people.

Submitted by Lucienne Costa (lucienneferreira@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-08-30T17:53:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 IGOR GOMES DE MENESES CRUZ – DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGCC) 2017.pdf: 3611712 bytes, checksum: 52e214b1e983514ff07991410708e671 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-30T17:53:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IGOR GOMES DE MENESES CRUZ – DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGCC) 2017.pdf: 3611712 bytes, checksum: 52e214b1e983514ff07991410708e671 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07 / Indivíduos deficientes visuais, apesar de possuírem grande capacidade de adaptação por meio de outros sentidos, ainda apresentam algumas limitações, como, por exemplo, a locomoção segura. A navegação humana é um comportamento muito complexo, que depende principalmente da visão. Portanto, para uma pessoa com deficiência visual, a locomoção se torna uma tarefa muito difícil, especialmente em algumas situações, como em ambientes desconhecidos ou próximo ao tráfego urbano. Aplicativos de navegação, baseados em mapas, proporcionam uma ajuda significativa em questões de orientação, mobilidade e apoio à localização, bem como a estimativa das direções e distâncias. Porém, estes usuários ainda encontram grandes dificuldades no acesso à informação espacial, já que a interação com este tipo de aplicação é realizada, principalmente, por meio da visão. Assim, na presente pesquisa, foi realizado um estudo com deficientes visuais, visando desenvolver uma solução acessível colaborativa de mobilidade para entender as principais necessidades, em termos de locomoção, desses usuários. A solução proposta inclui uma aplicação móvel com mapas acessíveis e com efeitos sonoros, capaz de ajudar na mobilidade deste tipo de usuário, levando em consideração possíveis obstáculos em seus trajetos e descrevendo o ambiente, em termos de Pontos de Interesse (POI), ao seu redor e em torno de uma direção específica indicada pelo usuário. Para alcançar este objetivo, foi utilizada a técnica de Informação Geográfica Voluntária (Volunteered Geographic Information - VGI), que tem se mostrado eficaz e de baixo custo para obtenção de informação geográfica. Foi conduzida uma avaliação experimental para avaliar a qualidade dos dados obtidos de forma colaborativa, bem como experimentos envolvendo participantes voluntários, a fim de avaliar se a solução proposta é satisfatória para mitigar os problemas relacionados à navegação da população deficiente visual. Por fim, os resultados obtidos nos experimentos se mostraram encorajadores, demonstrando que a solução proposta pode ser satisfatória para usuários deficientes visuais. / Although visually impaired individuals have great ability to adapt to a variety of situations through other senses, they still face some limitations, such as safe locomotion. Human navigation is a complex behavior, which depends mainly on vision. Therefore, for a visually impaired person, locomotion is a difficult task, especially in some situations, such as in unfamiliar surroundings or close to urban traffic. Map-based navigation applications provide significant help with guidance, mobility and location support, as well as with estimation of directions and distances. However, this kind of users still find great difficulties in accessing spatial information, since the interaction with this type of application is performed, mainly, through the vision. Thus, a study was carried out with the visually impaired to understand their main mobility needs, aiming at developing an accessible and collaborative mobility solution. The proposed solution includes a mobile application with accessible maps and sound effects, able to help the mobility of this type of users, taking into account possible obstacles in their paths and describing the environment in terms of Points of Interest (POI) around them and around a specific direction indicated by the user. In order to reach this goal, the Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) technique was used, since it has been shown to be efficient and low cost in obtaining geographic information. An experimental evaluation was conducted to evaluate the quality of the data obtained collaboratively, as well as experiments involving volunteer participants, in order to evaluate whether the proposed solution is satisfactory to mitigate the problems related to navigation of the visually impaired population. Finally, the results obtained in the experiments were encouraging, demonstrating that the proposed solution may be satisfactory for visually impaired users.

SOUSA, Clemilda dos Santos. Mediações no Sistema de Bibliotecas da Universidade Federal do Ceará na perspectiva da educação inclusiva. 2016. 106f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Políticas Públicas e Gestão da Educação Superior, Fortaleza (CE), 2016. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-04-25T14:56:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_cssousa.pdf: 1650822 bytes, checksum: c6666f4188321b937313c2c78952eb48 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-04-26T15:04:22Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_cssousa.pdf: 1650822 bytes, checksum: c6666f4188321b937313c2c78952eb48 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T15:04:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_cssousa.pdf: 1650822 bytes, checksum: c6666f4188321b937313c2c78952eb48 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / The inclusion of people with disabilities in education, despite many advances and achievements in the national and international level, has still faced many obstacles. Higher education, in the uniqueness of training professionals to contribute to the growth of society, has had its own challenges in the process of inclusion of people with disabilities. The University Library can contribute to this process, mediating the access to information and academic knowledge through its products and services. The research has, as main objective, to identify challenges and opportunities, in the access to academic knowledge, for students with visual impairments and their professors, having the University Library as a mediator. The study is characterized as exploratory of qualitative approach, taking the interview as a tool for data collection. The locus of the research is the Federal University of Ceará and its students with visual impairment and / or those who have low vision, as well as their professors in the subjects they find major and minor difficulties in accessing academic knowledge. The research concludes that the possible mediation in the context of inclusive education in Library System deals with the aspects of: attitudinal accessibility, digital communication and architectural aspects. Nevertheless, in order that the desired measurement becomes effective it is necessary to internally develop at the UFC Library System some Accessibility Policy, establishing accessibility parameters for the activities which will guide the services and products of the library in order that it becomes a promoter of the inclusive education in the academic environment. The most reported need, both by students and professors, is for books. The main suggestion is for a repository with the works in digital format. As for the training of the professors they recognize that they require more knowledge and suggest courses, workshops and training. As regards the inclusion policy most of the professors have a superficial knowledge. The students in their speech present a more consistent knowledge. Both students and teachers believe in the importance of the inclusion policy and consider the University Library important in the inclusion process. / A inclusão de pessoas com deficiência na Educação, apesar de muitos avanços e conquistas no âmbito nacional e internacional, ainda enfrenta muitos obstáculos. A Educação Superior, na singularidade de formar profissionais para contribuir com o crescimento da sociedade, exprime desafios próprios na inclusão de pessoas com deficiência. A Biblioteca Universitária pode contribuir, mediando o acesso à informação e ao conhecimento acadêmico por meio de seus produtos e serviços. A pesquisa tem como objetivo geral identificar desafios e possibilidades no acesso ao conhecimento acadêmico, para os discentes com deficiência visual e seus professores, tendo a Biblioteca Universitária como mediadora. O estudo se caracteriza como exploratório de abordagem qualitativa tendo como instrumento para coleta de dados, a entrevista. O locus da pesquisa é a Universidade Federal do Ceará com seus estudantes com deficiência visual e/ou com baixa visão, como também os professores desses discentes, nas disciplinas em que encontraram maiores e menores dificuldades de acesso ao conhecimento acadêmico. A pesquisa conclui que as mediações possíveis na perspectiva da Educação Inclusiva no Sistema de Bibliotecas versam sobre os aspectos de: acessibilidade atitudinal, acessibilidade de comunicação e digital e os aspectos arquitetônicos. Para que a medição pretendida se efetive, porém, é necessário elaborar internamente, no Sistema de Bibliotecas da UFC, uma política que estabeleça parâmetros de acessibilidade para as atividades, o que vai nortear os serviços e produtos da Biblioteca, de forma que esta seja promotora da Educação Inclusiva no ambiente acadêmico. A maior dificuldade relatada, tanto para os discentes como para docentes, é por acervo livros. A principal sugestão é por um repositório institucional com as obras em formato digital. Quanto à formação dos docentes, esses reconhecem que necessitam de mais conhecimentos e sugerem cursos, oficinas e capacitações. No que se refere à política de inclusão, os professores na sua maioria, têm um conhecimento superficial. Os discentes em suas falas, expressam um conhecimento mais consistente. Tanto os estudantes como os professores acreditam na importância da política de inclusão e consideram a Biblioteca Universitária importante para concretizar a inclusão.

Understanding fashion and dress is frequently dictated by the sense of sight and the social fact of visibility. This thesis aims to explore the phenomenon of non-visual fashion and dress with a particular focus on visually impaired people and their bodies as a site of knowledge production. While previous studies of the relationship between body and dress have examined how the sighted body is fashioned, the present small-scale and socio-sensorial study attempts to fathom how fashion and dress become perceivable in haptic, audial, and olfactory terms. This thesis engages thoughtfully with the visually impaired and their feelings related to the present-day field of fashion and dress, building on a Bourdieusan framework of habitus and embodiment applied to fashion studies. Employing qualitative interviews conducted among visually impaired women in Finland, this thesis gives voice to the people meagrely represented in the literature on fashion and dress. Furthermore, while acknowledging the empirically grounded non-visual dimension, this thesis adheres to previous contributions of revaluing the plurality of epistemologies and discourses vis-à-vis fashion, dress, and the body.

The subject of this thesis entitled What does an invisible city look like is the perception of a city and the way it is represented. The work is based on urban semiotics that sees urban environment as a particular system of communication. The methods of sensory urbanism and rhythm analysis are employed as well. The author asks whether the cities could be represented by other than visual symbols as it is usually the case for the products of tourism industry (guidebooks, souvenirs, etc.). Usually, the symbol of a particular city is formed by the image of its skyline. In Prague, this is the skyline of the Prague Castle, in Paris, it is the Eiffel tower, in New York, it is the Statue of Liberty, etc. But every city has definitely many other qualities. What are they? To find the answer, the author asks for help the visually impaired people. These people can tell easily what are the non-visual qualities of the urban space as they experience them necessarily in their everyday life and use them for better orientation. The author interviewed the visually impaired people and she also observed the way they read the city in real. The practical part of the thesis focuses on the Prague city centre.

The thesis deals with employing visually impaired people and support for their employability in the labour market. The purpose of the work is to explain the issues connected with the employment, its possibilities and ways of support in this area aimed at visually impaired people. The empirical part is based on the assessment of conditions of participation of visually impaired people in retraining courses organised by Dědina Residential Physiotherapy and Retraining Centre for Visually Impaired People. Its verification was performed using the following methods: analysis of the specialist literature, interviews, analysis of the interviews, observation and interviews with the specialist staff. The research showed that retraining courses organised by Dědina Residential Physiotherapy and Retraining Centre for Visually Impaired People are an important means of support for employment of visually impaired people from all over the country. The established facts show that retraining of any specialisation is necessary in order to enable the target group to find a suitable job. The aim of this work was to establish the objective and subjective benefits for the individual participants of a retraining course for Blind and Visually Impaired Masseurs and to point out that free labour market is not sufficiently...

The paper addresses issues of media education in blind high-school students, especially in the topical context of digital media. The theoretical part devotes to problems of education of visually impaired persons. Next, concern the subsumption of media education as a cross- sectional subject into Czech primary and high-schools education. This part is also concerned with specific digital media and extensive opportunities of its utilization for visually impaired persons. In the experimental part of the paper, discrete components of digital literacy of sightless high-school students are analysed. The method of focused (semi-structured) interviews was selected. Interviews were executed with ten visually impaired high-school students and subsequently analysed with the help of qualitative content analysis. The aim of the paper is to give a notice on dependence of blind people to digital media and its specifics and, in this conjunction, emphasise the importance of media education.

The Diploma thesis is focused on the application of the psychobiographic care approach in the Home Palata. The main aim of the thesis is to conduct a survey and demarcate the role of social workers in social services during work with the psychobiographic care model, if they are cooperating with each other in this area and how they perceive this model. The empiric part is the mainstay of this thesis; it is constituted of interviews with workers in social services and with social workers as well. They use the psychobiography in the Home Palata while providing care. Suggestions how to maintain the care in this profession and recommendation for the general public and colleagues in different organizations are the results of this thesis. The thesis refers to the importance of care application in accordance with the psychobiographic model in long stay social services because it brings completely new perspective of the human. The general view of the human soul is connected with the live story.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-19T11:50:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 mattoso2012.pdf: 911940 bytes, checksum: 805a11ed2f72c6a7be389b0934802eb2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Research about the informative potential of the audio description applied the two-dimensional works of visual arts as sonorous representation of the Information in Art for visually impaired people. Developed by means of a hybrid methodology composed by the approaches of the Evidential Paradigm, the Research-Action and on the basis of the Structural Model for Researches in Plastic Arts and in the Directives of the audio description for Samples and Museums it unfolded in methodological procedures in the which the researcher participated of diverse actions integrated to others agents. The inquiry sets out the extrinsic and inherent aspects of the audio description, considering the dimensions of accessibility physical, methodological, instrumental, communicative, programmatic and of attitudes by which means, the works of art, after being analyzed as sources of information and encoded in structure to assist, they become accessible and available to be accessed. A theoretical study about the stream informational audio description, carried out from the theoretical bases of the Information Science mainly of the Information in Art maintained the structure of the first exposition of two-dimensional works of visual arts with audio description that took place in the State of the Rio de Janeiro. The results of the research refute the distrust and the ignorance as to the informative potential that exists in the access of the visually impaired people to twodimensional standards and reveal contribution of the audio description for the Information Science. As byproduct of the research, documentary was created with content elements that composed the exposition, including the audio description, with plans for the future creation of the first Brazilian database of free access to audio descriptions of two-dimensional works of visual arts / Pesquisa sobre o potencial informativo da áudio-descrição aplicada a obras de artes visuais bidimensionais como representação sonora da Informação em Arte para pessoas com deficiência visual. Desenvolvida por meio de uma metodologia híbrida composta pelos métodos do Paradigma Indiciário, da Pequisa-Ação e com base no Modelo Estrutural para Pesquisas em Artes Plásticas e nas Diretrizes da Áudio-descrição para Mostras e Museus desdobrou-se em procedimentos metodológicos nos quais a pesquisadora participou de diversas ações integrada a outros agentes. A investigação explicita os aspectos intrínsecos e extrínsecos da áudio-descrição, levando-se em consideração as dimensões de acessibilidade física, metodológica, instrumental, comunicacional, programática e atitudinal, por meio dos quais as obras de arte após analisadas como fonte de informação e codificadas em estrutura assistiva são tornadas acessíveis e acessáveis. Um estudo teórico sobre o fluxo informacional da áudio-descrição, realizado a partir dos construtos teóricos da Ciência da Informação principalmente da Informação em Arte sustentou a estrutura da primeira exposição de obras de artes visuais bidimensionais com áudio-descrição realizada no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Os resultados da pesquisa refutam a desconfiança e a ignorância a respeito do potencial informativo que existe no acesso das pessoas com deficiência visual a padrões bidimensionais e revelam contribuição da áudio-descrição para a Ciência da Informação. Como subproduto da pesquisa foi estruturado um conteúdo documentário formado por elementos que compuseram a exposição, inclusive áudio-descrições, objetivando a criação futura da primeira base de dados brasileira de acesso livre a áudio-descrições de obras de artes visuais bidimensionais