This paper is mainly concerned to give an overview of the programs currently running at Stanford in computer-assisted instruction. These are the drill-and-practice program in elementary mathematics, the tutorial mathematics program for grade 2 , the tutorial reading program for grade 1. the tutorial logic and algebra program for grades 5 to 8 , the tutorial Russian program at the university lev...

Access to mathematics (and hence to most areas of science and technology) is barred to most visually disabled people. The complex, and often ambiguous, notation is diicult to retain and integrate in its spoken form. An interactive computer system, using synthetic speech, non-speech audio and new browsing strategies, aims to promote a more active reading of algebra notation.

The sequence of instruction and appropriate tools for novice learners of object-oriented programming has been extensively debated. This paper analyzes the learning environment for OO programmers, and presents a series of studies aimed at finding the sequence of instruction and the corresponding tool that best supports the learning of object-oriented programming, starting with objects first. The...

The modern visually-oriented world is the of real and virtual possibilities due to application information technologies. Therefore, television Internet are used not only for entertainment but also educational purposes in all spheres human activity including education. In didactics, audiovisuals play an important role mastering foreign languages. appropriateness their use process stipulated by i...

Translanguaging is an approach to the education of multilingual students that has been gaining in popularity recent years. defined as use multiple languages and modalities during classroom instruction with express purpose encouraging teaching all their linguistic resources make sense content demonstrate understanding. Though there a great deal research on translanguaging general, this article f...

Tabletop installations allow multiple users to playback digital media simultaneously. With public speakers, however, simultaneous auditory content gets superimposed, leading to a confusing and disturbing user experience. In this paper, we present Tangoscope, a tangible audio output device for tabletop interaction. As we augmented headphones with a visual marker-based identification mechanism, w...

High Performance Computing (HPC) resources are fast becoming more readily available. HPC hardware now exists for use in conjunction with standard desktop computers. This paper looks at what impact this could have on the Audio Engineering industry. Several potential applications of HPC within audio engineering research are discussed. A case study is also presented which highlights the benefits o...

JS-Xtract is an efficient modular JavaScript library for audio feature extraction, capable of operating on arbitrary time-series data, or being bound to Web Audio objects. The library implements an extensive range of vector and scalar feature extractors, and allows both procedural and object-oriented function calls. We show it performs well across a range of desktop and mobile browsers, and is ...

Mobility indoors or outdoors is a problem for visually impaired people because of lacking the visual channel. Appropriate learning tools about spatial information could be used as a preparation for navigation before going to the real place. Current accessibility technologies, such as screen readers, do not well convey spatial layout or structure. In this paper, an study on accessing non-visual ...

Today our cultural events are dominated by visual information based on sight and sound, but hardly at all on the combined senses of touch and sound. Visually impaired users, lacking sight are not often able to engage in cultural events. Compensated audio-description or talking books are standard products that visually impaired people can buy to imagine feature film stories or decide what is hap...