Virtual laboratory education for persons with vision disabilities

Author

Chung, Jong-Moon ; Ramasamy, Krishnaveni ; Kotikalapudi, Vizayahmar ; Mulla, Zia ; Thiyagarajan, Girirajan ; Weiser, Mark ; Scheets, George ; Sharda, Ramesh

Author_Institution

Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

4-7 Aug. 2002

Abstract

The Virtual Laboratory (VLab) is focused on providing same-time different-place group-interactions, allowing full real-time virtual-interaction of voice/video/data information of the Internet, communication systems, and multimedia equipment and facilities for vision disabled persons. The VLab interactive-monitor uses piezoelectric technology for graphical display and includes a novel braille markup language (BML) interface with the wireless application protocol (WAP) and the hyper-text mark-up language (HTML). The BML interface enables conversion of all types of existing web sites and facility/equipment control information to be displayed on the VLab interactive Braille monitor.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; distance learning; handicapped aids; laboratories; telecommunication engineering education; virtual reality; Internet; braille markup language; communication system; graphical display; hypertext markup language; interactive monitor; multimedia equipment; piezoelectric technology; virtual laboratory education; vision disability; web site; wireless application protocol; Broadcasting; Displays; HTML; Internet; Laboratories; Markup languages; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Real time systems; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2002. MWSCAS-2002. The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7523-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.2002.1186937

Filename

1186937