Title :
Educadaisy: Accessible digital didactic book on tablets for people with visual impairment
Author :
de Paula Costa, Laisa Caroline ; Correa, Ana G. D. ; Leite, Danilo ; Zuffo, Marcelo K. ; Lopes, Roseli D.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Abstract :
Tablets adoption is massive and increasing. Many applications are leveraging this huge widespread, including digital interactive books. Educadaisy is a proposal for an accessible digital book for Education in mobile devices, focusing on people with visual impairment. An implementation was developed for tablets with touch screen interfaces, aiming to complement digital accessible books for education. The work presents a digital book with support for knowledge assessing, text reading, worksheets, drawing and tactile images and maps.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; biomedical education; diseases; notebook computers; vision defects; digital didactic book; digital interactive books; drawing; educadaisy; maps; mobile devices; tablets; tactile images; text reading; touch screen interfaces; visual impairment; worksheets; Conferences; Consumer electronics; Education; Interviews; Thumb; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7542-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2015.7066326