Trackable interactive multimodal manipulatives: towards a tangible user environment for the blind

  • Authors:
  • Muhanad S. Manshad;Enrico Pontelli;Shakir J. Manshad

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, New Mexico State University (NMSU), New Mexico;Computer Science Department, New Mexico State University (NMSU), New Mexico;Math Adoptive Technology Lab for Students with Disabilities, NMSU, New Mexico

  • Venue:
  • ICCHP'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents the development of Trackable Interactive Multi-modal Manipulatives (TIMM). This system provides a multimodal tangible user environment (TUE), enabling people with visual impairments to create, modify and naturally interact with graphical representations on a multitouch surface. The system supports a novel notion of active position, proximity, stacking, and orientation tracking of manipulatives. The platform has been developed and it is undergoing formal evaluation.