Sensory disability design

1. Vision impairment and design solutions. https://medium.com/design-intelligence/diving-deeper-a-closer-look-at-the-spectrum-of-vision-impairment-and-interesting-research-insights-d4396b101eb4 
2. Sensory Design for Dementia Care – The Benefits of Textiles. 
3. Interactive Sensory Objects for and by People with Learning Disabilities. (Cognition disorders//Developmental disabilities) - The value of multi-sensory design within education 
4. Sina Bahram - “The Inclusive Museum”  (points out that museums have long used ramps and elevators to ensure that visitors with disabilities can enter the building, but museums often fail to offer these visitors a rich experience once they get inside.)
5. Hansel Bauman - “DeafSpace" book - notes that people who are deaf or hard of hearing use reflective surfaces to see what is happening behind them. Reflections duplicate space, creating visual echoes.

Sensory design embraces human diversity 

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/04/03/why-sensory-design/ 

• Universal design expert Karen Kraskow (Interviews with artists who are blind or visually impaired, learning how they live and flourish) - find these

Synesthesia - stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.

• Music can play in color
• Letters can conjure sounds or textures
• When learning the alphabet, a child might link the color green with words that start with g. Such associations become fixed for life,
• David Genco, a graphic designer with synesthesia, assigns color, gender, and personality to numbers. In his interactive video project Synesthetic Calculus, video clips visualize unique ways of remembering numbers via sensory connections.

Neurologist Richard E. Cytowic:

• ” The human mind has a gift for connecting sensations — we link tastes and colors, sounds and spaces. Some people who are deaf or blind become acutely attuned to multiple senses, using areas of the brain typically devoted to sight or sound to process other inputs. People perceive objects and spaces with sound and touch as well as with vision. People experience sound by feeling vibrations and seeing movements as well as hearing by ear."
• “The brain doesn’t care where the signals come from — your eyes or your big toe. Send in anything, and the brain will figure it out. Reality takes shape in the dark theater of the brain.”

Smartphone interfaces promote accessibility for blind and low-vision users by combining audio and haptic signals with touch-screen technology. Apple’s iPhone has a built-in screen reader and an array of accessibility modes — available to every user of every device. Steven Landau and Joshua Miele are creating tactile models, maps, and diagrams, while Liron Gino has designed a music player that translates sound into tangible vibrations.