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Tactile aids for visually impaired graphical design education

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ASSETS '14: Proceedings of the 16th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers & accessibility

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2661334.2661392

Published: 20 October 2014 Publication History

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In this demonstration, we describe our exploration in making graphic design theory accessible to a visually impaired student with the use of rapid prototyping tools. We created over 10 novel aids with the use of a laser cutter and 3D printer to demonstrate tangible examples of color theory, type face, web page layouts, and web design. These tactile aids were inexpensive and fabricated in a relatively small amount of time, suggesting the feasibility of our approach. The participant's feedback concluded an increased understanding of the class material and confirmed the potential of tactile aids and rapid prototyping in an educational environment

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Amy Hurst and Shaun Kane. 2013. Making "Making" accessible. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 635--638.

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Shaun K. Kane and Jeffrey P. Bigham. 2014. Tracking @stemxcomet: teaching programming to blind students via 3D printing, crisis management, and twitter. In Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 247--252.

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Tactile aids for visually impaired graphical design education
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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ASSETS '14: Proceedings of the 16th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers & accessibility

October 2014

378 pages

ISBN:9781450327206

DOI:10.1145/2661334

General Chair:
Sri Kurniawan
University of California Santa Cruz, USA
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John Richards
IBM Watson Group, USA

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