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Development of Software for Automatic Creation of Embossed Graphs

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To investigate appropriate representation of numerical data to blind people, a user experiment was conducted. Its results have shown that embossed graphs give quicker and correct access to the data than braille and electronic tables. Based on this observation, we started developing software for creation of embossed graphs which can be operated by blind people. Up until now line graphs can be created with this software.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, University of Niigata, Niigata, Japan

    Tetsuya Watanabe

  2. Graduate School of University of Niigata, Niigata, Japan

    Toshimitsu Yamaguchi & Masaki Nakagawa

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  3. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  4. Institute "integriert studieren", Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Watanabe, T., Yamaguchi, T., Nakagawa, M. (2012). Development of Software for Automatic Creation of Embossed Graphs. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_25

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