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Edutactile - A Tool for Rapid Generation of Accurate Guideline-Compliant Tactile Graphics for Science and Mathematics

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2014)

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In this paper the authors have presented the design and implementation of Edutactile, a cross-platform software which automates the process of creation of tactile diagrams. Edutactile provides for automated application of guidelines or presets as well as Braille translation and thus abstracts away the production related issues. This relieves special educators for the visually challenged from having to learn the workings of the graphics editing software (Photoshop, CorelDraw) which are currently being used to produced tactile graphics and instead focus on the content of the diagram.

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  1. Assistive Technologies Group, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

    Mrinal Mech, Kunal Kwatra, Supriya Das, Piyush Chanana, Rohan Paul & M. Balakrishnan

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  1. Institute "Integriert Studieren", Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, M5B 2K3, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Deborah Fels

  3. THIM/EA 4004 CHArt, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, 2 rue de la liberté, 93526, Saint-Denis Cedex, France

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  4. Teiresias Centre, Botanická 68A, Masaryk University, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

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  5. Institute "Integriert Studieren", Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 11/029, 1050, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Mech, M., Kwatra, K., Das, S., Chanana, P., Paul, R., Balakrishnan, M. (2014). Edutactile - A Tool for Rapid Generation of Accurate Guideline-Compliant Tactile Graphics for Science and Mathematics. In: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Peňáz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8548. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08599-9_6

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