Impaired Vision Experience

     We got a chance to experience vision impaired. We use plastic bag, sunglasses with Vaseline applied on the inside, and vision simulator tool to perform this activity. When I looked through the plastic bag, I immediately feel that the entire world is blurry and I am not confident that I can walk by myself because there are several wrinkles on the plastic bags that cause the vision even blurry. When I looked through the layers and read a newspaper, I founded that I can barely read the big title but for the rest of the newspaper, I can't recognize at all. We then fold the bag in half to experience the vision through four layers of plastic. I already feel the blurry through two layers because I am slightly near-sighted so four layers of plastic is extremely hard for me.

     The vision simulator tool is actually fun because I found I can see through it without too many difficulties except for the bottom one. The bottom one will make me be a real blind. There are two vision that seems to tell us the difference between  the white part of our eye and pupilla. I thought the pupilla is how we can actually see because when I look trough the third one, I need to turn my eye to see the surrounding.
     After experiencing the impaired vision through plastic bag, I put on the pair of sunglasses which is already apply a thin layer of Vaseline inside the glasses and walk through the CUB. I can feel that there are people walking toward me and I am able to walk without others' help. However, I only have the vision of approximately 15' so I need to pay more attention to the surrounding area. I think I walker a little bit slower than normal because I am afraid of being vision impaired but I finally made myself in front of the elevator. It is kind of fun because other people have no idea that the sunglasses I wore is decreasing my vision ability. I then feel comfortable and push the bottom and go to the down stair.

     I tried to use the ATM machine and figured out the location of the card swipe and key-paid. I am not familiar with the ATM machine so it took me some time to figure out where the card swipe and key-paid is. It is frustrating because there are other device similar to card swipe and I can't see the numbers one the keyboard.
    Next, I went through the library from CUB and noticed that there are a divider between the door accessing to the library. I believe it is a potential danger to people with impaired vision. The floor underneath is changing and thus I was able to realize that I am entering a different space. There are black strips on the edges of each stairs which is really helpful to identify. This is perhaps the biggest discovery of the impaired vision experience. I figured out that stairs in the outdoor are usually having no distinguishable strips but some of them acquire caved strips. Both caved strips and black strips play an important role for people with impaired vision and also beneficial to add resistances to prevent slippery.