Towards the Creation of a Tactile Version of the Self-Assessment Manikin (T-SAM) for the Emotional Assessment of Visually Impaired People

The Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) is one of the most extensively used instruments in the situational assessment of the emotional state in experimental or clinical contexts of emotional induction. However, there is no instrument of this kind adapted for blind or visually impaired people. In this pape...

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Published inInternational journal of disability, development, and education Vol. 67; no. 6; pp. 657 - 674
Main Authors Iturregui-Gallardo, Gonzalo, Méndez-Ulrich, Jorge Luis
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 01.11.2020
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Adaptation
Arousal
Assessment
audio subtitling
Blindness
cinema
Clinical assessment
Content Validity
emotion
emotional induction
Focus groups
Foreign Countries
Induction
People with disabilities
Psychological Patterns
Questionnaires
Self evaluation
Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Situational Tests
Tactile Adaptation
Teams
Test Validity
Usability
Usefulness
Validity
Visual impairment
Visual Impairments
Spain (Barcelona)
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Summary:The Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) is one of the most extensively used instruments in the situational assessment of the emotional state in experimental or clinical contexts of emotional induction. However, there is no instrument of this kind adapted for blind or visually impaired people. In this paper, we present the results of the preliminary validation of a tactile adaptation of the SAM, the Tactile Self-Assessment Manikin (T-SAM). For this purpose, 5 people with visual disabilities participated in a focus group in which the usability of this adaptation was evaluated, as well as its usefulness in representing the valence and arousal subscales of the original instrument. The analysis of the content of this focus group suggests a pertinent content validity, while the participants correctly understood both the purpose of the instrument, and the tactile representations of valence and activation constructs created by the research team. However, the difficulty of blind people from birth to understand the graphic representation of an emotional facial expression was detected, which represents a limitation to control in future steps in the validation of T-SAM.
ISSN:1034-912X
1465-346X
DOI:10.1080/1034912X.2019.1626007