Educadaisy: Accessible digital didactic book on tablets for people with visual impairment

Author

de Paula Costa, Laisa Caroline ; Correa, Ana G. D. ; Leite, Danilo ; Zuffo, Marcelo K. ; Lopes, Roseli D.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

fYear

2015

fDate

9-12 Jan. 2015

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

79

Abstract

Tablets adoption is massive and increasing. Many applications are leveraging this huge widespread, including digital interactive books. Educadaisy is a proposal for an accessible digital book for Education in mobile devices, focusing on people with visual impairment. An implementation was developed for tablets with touch screen interfaces, aiming to complement digital accessible books for education. The work presents a digital book with support for knowledge assessing, text reading, worksheets, drawing and tactile images and maps.

Keywords

biomedical communication; biomedical education; diseases; notebook computers; vision defects; digital didactic book; digital interactive books; drawing; educadaisy; maps; mobile devices; tablets; tactile images; text reading; touch screen interfaces; visual impairment; worksheets; Conferences; Consumer electronics; Education; Interviews; Thumb; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7542-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2015.7066326

Filename

7066326