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Constructing sonified haptic line graphs for the blind student: first steps

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Rameshsharma Ramloll,

Stephen Brewster,

Gisela DimigenAuthors Info & Claims

Assets '00: Proceedings of the fourth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies

Pages 17 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/354324.354330

Published: 13 November 2000 Publication History

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Line graphs stand as an established information visualisation and analysis technique taught at various levels of difficulty according to standard Mathematics curricula. It has been argued that blind individuals cannot use line graphs as a visualisation and analytic tool because they currently primarily exist in the visual medium. The research described in this paper aims at making line graphs accessible to blind students through auditory and haptic media. We describe (1) our design space for representing line graphs, (2) the technology we use to develop our prototypes and (3) the insights from our preliminary work.

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