Our class assignment was to design a museum experience for people who were differently abled. We tried putting ourselves in the shoes of the differently abled people by simulating three disabilities. We chose ADHD, partial hearing and blindness and color blindness as our disabilities. We simulated one of these disabilities on each member of the team to get an idea of what it would be like to live for an hour with this disability.

Based on these insights we designed a touch museum. If implemented our concept would be an area of the museum with real plants that the people could see and touch through simulation. We took fabric and treated it with glue and other things to make it more like the plant we were looking at. The fabric in the photo at left was dipped in glue and made hard so that it would feel like the cactus.

We tested it on users to see what they thought by placing them in front of a big screen and handing them the items to feel as they were looking at the plants.