Understanding Nature Engagement Experiences of Blind People
Mengjie Tang, Xinman Li, Juxiao Zhang, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Zhuying Li · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
This mixed-methods study investigates how blind people in mainland China experience and relate to natural environments, a domain the authors argue has been almost entirely overlooked by Human-Nature Interaction (HNI) research and by accessibility tooling, which has focused…
nature engagement · blind and low vision · human-nature interaction · multisensory · wellbeing