Saija Patomäki
ABSTRACT
Visually impaired children do not have equal opportunities to learn and play compared to sighted children. Computers have a great potential to correct this problem. In this paper we present a series of studies where multimodal applications were designed for a group of eleven visually impaired children aged from 3.5 to 7.5 years. We also present our testing procedure specially adapted for visually impaired young children. During the two-year project it became clear that with careful designing of the tasks and proper use of haptic and auditory features usable computing environments can be created for visually impaired children.
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Index Terms
- Experiences on haptic interfaces for visually impaired young children
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