Science education for blind and visually impaired children

The Vickie Project Visually Impaired Children Kit for Inclusive Education

This paper provides a general introduction to the Vickie Project, aimed at facilitating the inclusion of visually impaired pupils and students. An unified user interface will allow the pupils and students to access documents with specific devices, and a synchronised graphical display will supply sighted teachers with a view of the same document. A set of tools will allow compatibility with exis...

Access to Science for Visually Impaired

Introductory Programming Education for Visually Impaired

Recurring problems that are present in introductory and other programming courses have created a negative and pessimistic opinion among programming novices that enroll these courses. These problems have also created a fear about programming among programming novices which is passing from one generation to another. This fact is also supported by many researches which report that programming cour...

SoundVision Advanced Auditory Displays for the Blind and Visually Impaired

SoundVision research work aims at the development of a human-computer interface based on the auditory mode, exploiting the extensive capabilities of the human auditory system. As the first application of such an advanced auditory display SoundVision will focus on a system providing efficient access to digital information resources for the visually impaired and the blind. Having the focus on thi...

The dramatic piece reader for the blind and visually impaired

The paper presents the concept and realization of the intelligent audio-book reader for the visually impaired. The system is capable of presenting personalities of different characters. The synthesizer mimics the way how a puppeteer portrays different characters. A traditional puppeteer generally uses up to a dozen different marionettes in one piece. Each of them impersonates a character with i...