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Evaluating text descriptions of mathematical graphs

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One approach to making graphs more accessible has been the incorporation of natural language descriptions of graphs into multimodal assistive technologies. MathTrax is software targeted at middle and high school students that employs a Math Description Engine (MDE) [1] to produce a textual description of graphs, as well as a visual and auditory representation of the graphs. Our study compared descriptions generated by the MDE to those generated by teachers of high school math, in order to better understand how to optimize the structure and content of mathematical graph descriptions. Feedback from these experts is compiled into suggestions for description templates to improve graphs descriptions, as well as design recommendations for future applications.

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ASSETS '10: Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2010
346 pages
ISBN:9781605588810
DOI:10.1145/1878803

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Published: 25 October 2010

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  1. graph description
  2. graphs
  3. math description engine
  4. math education
  5. technology review

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