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- research-articleOctober 2022
Support for Teaching Mathematics of the Blind by Sighted Tutors Through Multisensual Access to Formulas with Braille Converters and Speech
MM '22: Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on MultimediaPages 1552–1560https://doi.org/10.1145/3503161.3548425Nowadays, teaching various subjects at school is successfully supported by information and remote technologies such as Google Class, Moodle and others. Nevertheless, students with special needs such as the visually impaired (BVI) face incredible ...
- research-articleJanuary 2022
Aim-Math: a ubiquitous mathematics learning tool for blind and visually impaired students
International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (IJMLO), Volume 16, Issue 1Pages 1–19https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmlo.2022.119978We present an assistive learning tool to drive the mathematical instruction for students with visual impairment; Aim-Math. Instructional-driven features and assistive features were designed to help the students understand a concept and ease the learning ...
- research-articleJanuary 2020
Understanding m-learning experiences for blind students
- Deller James Ferreira,
- Jorge Lucas Pimmel Pacheco,
- Luciana De Oliveira Berreta,
- Tiago Do Carmo Nogueira
International Journal of Learning Technology (IJLT), Volume 15, Issue 1Pages 26–44https://doi.org/10.1504/ijlt.2020.107663When designing educational technologies for blind people, we need to consider technological and pedagogical strands. From the pedagogical point of view, m-learning has the potential to benefit blind students. Regarding the technological aspect, m-learning ...
- research-articleNovember 2012
Projeto D4ALL: acesso e manipulação de diagramas por pessoas com deficiência visual
- Luciano Tadeu Esteves Pansanato,
- André Luís Martins Bandeira,
- Luiz Gustavo dos Santos,
- Dferson do Prado Pereira
IHC '12: Proceedings of the 11th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 33–36D4ALL project aim the research, development and extension in the context of approaches and alternative techniques of representation and interaction for access and manipulation of diagrams for people with visual disability. The main results include ...
- ArticleJuly 2010
Combining web services and DAISY for the production and delivery of audio tactile diagrams
In recent years audio tactile diagrams have emerged as a viable method of providing blind learners with access to diagrammatical material. It has proven beneficial, but obstacles remain to its widespread adoption, especially in situations where a ...
- ArticleJuly 2008
Distance Learning of Graphically Intensive Material for Visually Impaired Students
ICCHP '08: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special NeedsPages 219–225https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_32Historically the conveying of graphical materials to visually impaired students has been difficult to achieve. Various methods have evolved that aim to solve the problem, ranging from those based on technology to the construction of models which the ...
- research-articleMarch 2008
Inspiring blind high school students to pursue computer science with instant messaging chatbots
- Jeffrey P. Bigham,
- Maxwell B. Aller,
- Jeremy T. Brudvik,
- Jessica O. Leung,
- Lindsay A. Yazzolino,
- Richard E. Ladner
SIGCSE '08: Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science educationPages 449–453https://doi.org/10.1145/1352135.1352287Blind students are an underrepresented group in computer science. In this paper, we describe our experience preparing and leading the computer science track at the National Federation of the Blind Youth Slam. As part of this workshop, fifteen blind high ...
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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin: Volume 40 Issue 1 - ArticleOctober 2007
Dual educational electronic textbooks: the starlight platform
Assets '07: Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibilityPages 107–114https://doi.org/10.1145/1296843.1296863This paper presents a novel software platform for developing and interacting with multimodal interactive electronic textbooks that provide a Dual User Interface, i.e., an interface concurrently accessible by visually impaired and sighted persons. The ...
- ArticleOctober 2006
Lambda:: a multimodal approach to making mathematics accessible to blind students
Assets '06: Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibilityPages 48–54https://doi.org/10.1145/1168987.1168997The study of mathematics is all but precluded to most blind students because of the reliance on visual notations. The Lambda System is an attempt to overcome this barrier to access through the development of a linear mathematical notation which can be ...