TOOLS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
Technology can provide new ways for visually impaired people to interact with the environment and access written material. Yet sometimes this same technology can get in the way of easy access. The McSig project is an example of a new learning tool that is facilitated by new technology. Our document resizing project aims to untangle complex documents and re-render them linearly.
- The McSig project is a multi-modal collaborative environment for teaching blind children to write a signature and draw basic geometric shapes. It echoes the teacher's pen-based input to a haptic(robotic) pen and supports this movement with audio feedback and a tactile drawing surface. This highly innovative project received a best paper award at the prestigious ACM CHI2008.