Crowdsourcing has now been used in many areas, including to support people with disabilities. We explored the perceptions of students from two countries with very different cultures (Libya and the UK) of what would motivate them to participate in a crowdsourcing project (DescribeIT) to support their blind and partially sighted peers by describing images in digital learning resources. Students r...

A few studies have examined the empirical aspect of the ethics of clinical training, but no randomised study has compared different strategies for giving information to patients about clinical training. We conducted a randomised, double blind trial to determine whether advance written information leads patients attending gynaecology outpatient clinics to decline to take part in the clinical tra...

The project investigates the potential benefits of multimodal user interfaces for blind students. A multimodal user interface uses the combination of two or more different human senses to interact with computers. The work focused on finding the needs of the interaction model for blind students by using different human modalities, so that they perceive and control information in efficient and ef...

Background noise and interruption were examined for their effects on learning health information. The final sample consisted of 48 college students randomly assigned to one of four conditions in a pretest-posttest, double-blind, 2 x 2 experiment comparing noise (noise/no noise) by interruption (interruption/no interruption). Students viewed one of four videotapes about safe antibiotic use and t...

Blind individuals have been deprived of the use of diagrams as a form of knowledge representation and an aid to problem solving as well as a means of communication. Our focus is on providing them with access to a specific type of diagram – the node-link diagram, also known as a combinatorial graph. Graphs figure prominently in computer science and software engineering as well as chemistry and o...

Background: Colour-blind attitudes deny racial dynamics and can lead to resistance transformation because there seems be no need for it. This study investigated these amongst students at a university campus engaged with implementing its agenda. Aim: Using survey, the research determined prevalence of colour-blind evaluated social factors that may have contributed attitudes. Setting: The was con...

E ffective teachers do no simply present information for students to learn by rote for a good grade. Rather, they provide an environment in which students can engage with course material and both learn and interpret it for their own interest and goals. With this in mind, I have spent a considerable amount of time developing an active learning format for my introductory biology course, including...

It is well known that mathematics presents a number of hindrances to visually impaired students. In case of function graphs, for example, several assistive solutions have been proposed to enhance their accessibility. Unfortunately, both hardware tools (e.g., tactile paper) and existing software applications cannot guarantee, at the same time, a clear understanding of the graph and a full autono...