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Disclosing the Secrets of Braille Reading—Computer-Aided Registration and Interactive Analysis
- Source :
- Visual Impairment Research. 8:49-59
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2006.
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Abstract
- The pilot project reported here utilized the first technology ever developed for the computerized on-line registration and analysis of finger movements during Braille reading. Five congenitally blind subjects performed tactile reading of pedagogically carefully selected texts. Two specialists in visual impairments analyzed the computer-registered reading activities using specially designed interaction software. The subjects themselves were interviewed and contributed to discussions about their own individual reading styles. The analyses of this first handful of subjects reveal a number of important strategies and preferences with regard to on-line tactile reading. Further, the results challenge several assumptions and practices in Braille teaching. This pilot project lays the foundation for more comprehensive large-scale studies—both cross-sectional and longitudinal ones—studies long wanted in the domain of tactile reading.
- Subjects :
- Multimedia
business.industry
Computer science
media_common.quotation_subject
Visual impairment
Braille
Interactive analysis
computer.software_genre
Domain (software engineering)
Ophthalmology
Software
Human–computer interaction
Reading (process)
Braille reading
medicine
Computer-aided
medicine.symptom
business
computer
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17445167 and 1388235X
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Visual Impairment Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d3b9d8a368fd72b61a5a0c0b0e1c5ef0