Abstract
Visual impairment refers to when someone lose part or all of the ability to see. People with visual impairment has many limitations including the freedom of doing grocery shopping independently. They will have difficulty to read ingredients or dietary information which usually returned in small font letters on the products. This information is deemed important to make informed decision in order to purchase products. Therefore, this research is conducted to investigate the need of grocery shopping assistant app for people with visual impairment and their acceptance level. An empirical investigation method is adapted and data was collected based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The evaluation results indicate that the people with visual impairment positively inclined towards utilizing shopping assistant app caused by the technology is easy to use and therefore they can obtain benefit from the app, concluding that Perceived Ease of Use is a better indicator for the attitude towards using the shopping assistant app.
Highlights
Visual impairment is vision loss or decreased ability to see to such a degree as to qualify as an additional support need through a significant limitation of visual capability
According to World Health Organization (WHO) [9], it is estimated that there are 253 million people who suffered with visual impairment where 36 million from them were blind and the others have moderate to severe vision impairment
The results showed that, as a whole, the respondents agree on the usefulness and ease of use of the shopping assistant app conducted in this study
Summary
Visual impairment is vision loss or decreased ability to see to such a degree as to qualify as an additional support need through a significant limitation of visual capability. Visual impairment is referring to people with limitation to see things clearly They can be from old people or people who already suffered with decreased of vision [2]. Visual impairment people with low vision has visual acuity of 3/60 to 6/60 with full field of vision They have visual acuity of up to 6/24 with moderate reduction of field of vision or with central part of vision that is cloudy and blurry [14]. They are mostly over 50 years old and they cannot see clearly especially small and tiny things or text information
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