Technology to support emergent literacy skills in young children with visual impairments

Abigale Stangl, Jeeeun Kim, Tom Yeh

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Abstract

Developing emergent literacy skills and attitudes within children with visual impairments is critical to cultivating their lifelong ability to construct concepts about the function of symbols and develop tactile acuity. We offer novel HCI research on the factors that impact parents' abilities to create tactile pictures to meet their child's unique needs. The findings presented here are our first steps towards developing technologies and interfaces that support teachers and parents in easily and efficiently creating unique and replicable tactile graphics for children with visual impairments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI EA 2014
Subtitle of host publicationOne of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1249-1254
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781450324748
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014 - Toronto, ON, Canada
Duration: 26 Apr 20141 May 2014

Publication series

NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto, ON
Period26/04/141/05/14

Keywords

  • Blind
  • Children
  • Emergent literacy
  • Tactile graphics

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