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The Development of a Universal Design Tactile Graphics Production System BPLOT2

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We introduce a new universal design tactile graphics production system: BPLOT2. With BPLOT2, blind persons and sighted persons can share resources and cooperatively draw tactile graphics to be utilized in braille textbooks and teaching materials. Present tactile graphics design applications have only GUI (Graphical User Interface) with the need for mouse operations and thus are not usable by blind persons. Equally inconvenient, our self-supporting tactile graphics production system for the blind, BPLOT, has only CUI (Character User Interface), so BPLOT is not popular among the sighted. Therefore, we implemented GUI on BPLOT and realized universal design on BPLOT2.

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  1. Research Division, National Center for University Entrance Examinations, 2-19-23 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8501, Japan

    Mamoru Fujiyoshi

  2. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Ibaraki University, 4-12-1 Nakanarusawa, Hitachi, Ibaraki, 316-8511, Japan

    Akio Fujiyoshi

  3. Research and Support Center on Higher Education for the Hearing and Visually Impaired, Tsukuba University of Technology, 4-12-7 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0821, Japan

    Nobuyuki Ohtake

  4. Junior College Funabashi Campus, Nihon University, 7-24-1 Narashinodai, Funabashi, Chiba, 274-8501, Japan

    Katsuhito Yamaguchi

  5. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Digital Manufacturing Research Center, 1-2 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8564, Japan

    Yoshinori Teshima

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Fujiyoshi, M., Fujiyoshi, A., Ohtake, N., Yamaguchi, K., Teshima, Y. (2008). The Development of a Universal Design Tactile Graphics Production System BPLOT2. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_141

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