A New Visual Communication System for Deaf-Blind Tertiary Education Students
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Computer and Information Science
RAS ID
2898
Abstract
With increasing influence of globalisation and the importance of accessibility legalisation it is essential that the deaf-blind, especially deaf-blind tertiary students, can make effective use of computers for using the Web, word-processing and email for example. Conventional text to speech translation may not be effective if the student also has hearing difficulties. The authors have developed a system that can replace conventional textual characters with patterns that are matched to a visually disabled person's visual recognition capacity. A timed presentation of a sequence of such patterns can represent a word. Consecutive sequences of such patterns can represent a sentence or a paragraph. This paper includes results of experiments performed using this system via a specially developed program Dynamic Pattern System (DPS) that was designed as a test bed for such investigations. This paper also considers areas requiring further investigation.
Comments
Veal, D., & Maj, S. P. (2005). A new visual communication system for deaf-blind tertiary education students. In Proceedings of The 2005 ASEE/AaeE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education. Brisbane, Qld: School of Engineering, The University of Queensland.