creator Troyk, Melissa J advisor Lane, Frank J. The research focused on restoring visual perception via a vision prosthetic is progressing at a rapidly advancing rate. Previous research on the experiences and perspectives of past, current, and potential vision prosthesis users has demonstrated that the decision to obtain a vision prosthetic is driven by a variety of unique factors and variables that merge with one another during the process of deciding to participate in clinical vision prosthesis research (Lane, Huyck, Troyk, & Schug, 2012; Lane, Nitsch, Huyck, Troyk, & Schug, 2014; Lane, Nitsch, & Troyk, 2015). The purpose of the current study was twofold: 1) to determine if our understanding of the experiences and perspectives of potential vision prosthesis users was nearing saturation, and 2) to understand the perspectives of potential vision prosthesis users who are veterans. Data were analyzed in accordance with qualitative analysis procedures. Results identified several new themes and subthemes that were determined to be important to our understanding of potential users’ perspectives of an intracortical vision prosthesis device. A preliminary framework is proposed for understanding how the identified themes and subthemes merge during the process of deciding to participate in an experimental vision prosthesis human clinical trial. The results demonstrated that while progress has been made, there is still more to learn about blind individuals’ perspectives of vision prostheses and how they would decide to participate in vision prosthesis research. Submitted by Erma Thomas (thomase@iit.edu) on 2018-03-20T22:16:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 etdadmin_upload_525884.zip: 440722 bytes, checksum: e7511bd28b49266028a72d1dc901cb49 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-20T22:16:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 etdadmin_upload_525884.zip: 440722 bytes, checksum: e7511bd28b49266028a72d1dc901cb49 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07 M.S. in Psychology, July 2017 2017 2017-07 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/4236 en Ethics Human Clinical Trials Human Factors Engineering Qualitative Methodology Vision Loss Vision Prosthesis Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access PSYCH / Institute of Psychology Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department