ArticleTranslational vision science & technology2017
Living with Ultra-Low Vision: An Inventory of Self-Reported Visually Guided Activities by Individuals with Profound Visual Impairment.
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- Development of The Chinese Version of Ultra-Low Vision Visual Functioning Questionnaire-150.Translational vision science & technology · 2023Article
- Measuring visual information gathering in individuals with ultra low vision using virtual reality.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Measuring visually guided motor performance in ultra low vision using virtual reality.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- A Virtual Reality Orientation and Mobility Test for Inherited Retinal Degenerations: Testing a Proof-of-Concept After Gene Therapy.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Article
- An update on retinal prostheses.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2020Review
- Restoring vision at the fovea.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2019Article
- Optimizing the ULV-VFQ for Clinical Use Through Item Set Reduction: Psychometric Properties and Trade-Offs.Translational vision science & technology · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposeTo understand how individuals with profound visual impairment (ultra-low vision, ULV) use their remaining vision.
methodsForty-six participants with ULV (visual acuity ≤ 200/500 in the better seeing eye) were divided into nine focus groups (4-6 individuals per group) and met either in person (
resultsSeven hundred sixty activities were reported. By functional domain they were classified as reading/shape recognition (10%), mobility (17%), visual motor (24%), and visual information gathering (49%). By visual aspects, they were classified as contrast (43%), luminance (17%), environmental lighting (9%), familiarity (3%), motion perception (5%), distance (7%), size (9%), eccentricity (5%), depth perception (1%), and other/miscellaneous (1%). More than one visual aspect may be critical for an activity: participants reported that contrast plays a role in 68% of visual activities, followed by luminance (27%), environmental lighting (14%), and size (14%).
conclusionsVisual aspects, primarily contrast, were found to be critical factors enabling ULV individuals to perform visual activities. TRANSLATIONAL RELEVANCE: This inventory, part of the Prosthetic Low Vision Rehabilitation (PLoVR) curriculum development study, provides a unique perspective into the visual world of the nearly blind, and can be used in the development of a Visual Functioning Questionnaire (VFQ) and visual performance measures suited for ULV populations.
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