Catherine M. Baker
Abstract
Computer science has many aspects that are inaccessible to someone who is blind. My research has focused on identifying the different barriers that exist for blind students in computer science and creating technology to overcome them. I have done two projects towards this goal, StructJumper and a survey and interviews with blind students about their experiences learning programming. StructJumper is a tool that creates a tree based on the structure of the code, which can be used for navigation and discovering contextual information in the code. The surveys and interviews focused on the barriers that blind students faced in learning computer science. For my dissertation, I am proposing one more project investigating how to convey updates to data structures.
- Catherine M. Baker, Lauren R. Milne, and Richard E. Ladner. 2015. StructJumper. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '15, 3043--3052. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- James H. Cross, T. Dean Hendrix, Jhilmil Jain, and Larry A. Barowski. 2007. Dynamic object viewers for data structures. In Proceedinds of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education - SIGCSE '07, 4. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Philip J. Guo. 2013. Online python tutor. In Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education - SIGCSE '13, 579.Google Scholar
- A. M. Howard and S. Remy. 2012. Using Haptic and Auditory Interaction Tools to Engage Students with Visual Impairments in Robot Programming Activities. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies 5, 1: 87--95. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jhilmil Jain, James H. Cross, T. Dean Hendrix, and Larry A. Barowski. 2006. Experimental evaluation of animated-verifying object viewers for Java. In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Software visualization - SoftVis '06, 27. Google ScholarDigital Library
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- Andreas M. Stefik, Christopher Hundhausen, and Derrick Smith. 2011. On the design of an educational infrastructure for the blind and visually impaired in computer science. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education - SIGCSE '11, 571. Google ScholarDigital Library
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