We are going to promote a mobile app called Smart City Walk in the campus. This app aims to facilitate students with SEN to go to the destinations independently using verbal instruction/ visual maps. In this workshop, speakers from the Hong Kong Blind Union (香港失明人協進會) will demonstrate how the app works as well as share effective ways of supporting people with visual impairment (VI). The details are listed below.

Date: 5 January 2021 (Tue) OR 7 January 2021 (Thu)

Time :3:00pm - 4:00pm

Medium of instruction: Cantonese

Format: Zoom

Quota of each session: 40

Content:

1) Understanding the needs and difficulties of people with VI

2) Sharing by students with VI on how technology facilitates their campus life

3) Demonstration of "Smart City Walk" app at CUHK (an indoor navigation app)

If you are interested, please register through this link on or before 29 Dec 2020, 5pm.

https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=859007

Should you have further questions, please contact us on 3943-5441 or by email to sdss@cuhk.edu.hk.