Testing Abilities

Over the last few days we have been looking at ways we can test out our communication between senses/abilities. We are looking at games that are natural to us that everyone can understand. Something that can be simple and include at least all four of us students. After playing this game for a while normally we would like to remove some of our senses/abilities to see how much of an impact it has on us and how we would still be able to play the game and communicate with the other players.

Sight, touch and hearing. What would life be like to live without them?

So far we have tried a few games, including pictionary. Its been able to give me some information of what part the senses/abilities have played in the game and what it has done to the players. I was able to notice that when a sense was taken away the players fell into certain roles. This was because it changed the way they were thinking as I also found out from this video. At 41:51 in the video some students make a test to see what it's like to take away all senses and how it affects the mind.

The players in our game felt helpless in their disability and wanted to send information to others to allow them to understand what it was they were feeling. The players could also receive information on how the other players disabilities looked to them and would try to communicate with them to assist them. I thought this was very interesting because each player would become something different but still work as a team using their different roles.



I saw this as:

Restrained hands: Would tell others what to do because they could not do it themselves.

Deaf: Would observe because they could not receive information well from others.

Mute: Would first observe but then interact physically to communicate to show what they have gathered from the information they have received.

Blind: Would follow others because they can communicate well but feel they are the least aware with what is going on. They are also the loudest followed by the restrained hands.


These observations may not be completely accurate as the people involved and the game played may have had an influence in the roles the players fell into.

References 

 

Blind, Deaf Actors Take Stage in Israel, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyCfeRL1M4Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

Human Senses & The Mind / Educational Documentary Video, 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Owmqa7LdBw&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

 

“Pictionary - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia”, n.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictionary.

 

“Visual Auditory Kinesthetic”, n.d. http://www.managing-change.net/visual-auditory-kinesthetic.html.