Experiences on haptic interfaces for visually impaired young children

Authors:
Saija Patomäki;Roope Raisamo;Jouni Salo;Virpi Pasto;Arto Hippula
Affiliations:
University of Tampere, Finland;University of Tampere, Finland;University of Tampere, Finland;University of Tampere, Finland;University of Tampere, Finland
Venue:
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
Year:
2004

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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.