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In this article, a collaborative workstation for sighted and visually impaired users is proposed. It can be used for creating tactile graphics in a collaborative manner. The workstation consists of a classical drawing application extended with tools supporting the design of tactile graphics as well as a non-visual interface to the drawing application. As a result, blind users get both auditory and tactile feedback from the workstation through a dynamic planar tactile pin-matrix device. We also introduce supporting features as well as discuss problems in collaboration. Ultimately, we provide a set of recommendations for building a collaborative system with these different interface modalities.
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The Tangram project was sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) under the grant number R/FO125423. We would also like to thank all blind and sighted participants, as well as Dillon Montag for his editorial suggestions.
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Bornschein, J., Prescher, D. (2016). Visual to Non-visual Collaboration on a Dynamic Tactile Graphics Display. In: Anslow, C., Campos, P., Jorge, J. (eds) Collaboration Meets Interactive Spaces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45853-3_19
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