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Note-taker 3.0: an assistive technology enabling students who are legally blind to take notes in class

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ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 269 - 270

https://doi.org/10.1145/2049536.2049601

Published: 24 October 2011 Publication History

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While the Americans with Disabilities Act mandates that universities provide visually disabled students with human note-takers, studies have shown that it is vital that students take their own notes during classroom lectures. Because students are cognitively engaged while taking notes, their retention is better, even if they never review their notes after class. However, students with visual disabilities are at a disadvantage compared to their sighted peers when taking notes - especially in fast-pace class presentations. They find it more difficult to rapidly switch back and forth between viewing the front of the room and viewing the notes they are taking. Currently available assistive technologies do not adequately address this need to rapidly switch back and forth. This paper presents the results of a 3-year study aimed at the development of an assistive technology that is specifically aimed at allowing students with visual disabilities to take handwritten and/or typed notes in the classroom, without relying on any classroom infrastructure, or any special accommodations by the lecturer or the institution.

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D. Hayden et al. "Note-Taker 2.0: The Next Step Toward Enabling Students who are Legally Blind to Take Notes in Class", Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2010.

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Note-taker 3.0: an assistive technology enabling students who are legally blind to take notes in class
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Computer-assisted instruction
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition

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ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

October 2011

348 pages

ISBN:9781450309202

DOI:10.1145/2049536

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Kathleen F. McCoy
University of Delaware, USA
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Yeliz Yesilada
Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus

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