@Science STS @ICCHP '08

@Science Special Thematic Session at the International Conference on Computer Helping People with Special Needs

Access to Science for Blind and Visually Impaired

July 9th, 2008

In this session the following papers were presented:

"Access to mathematics in web resources for people with visual impairment"
Martyn Cooper, Tim Lowe and Mary Taylor
Accessibility in Educational Media (AEM), Institute of Educational Technology, Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology, OU VLE Programme The Open University, UK

"An off-screen model for tactile graphical user interfaces"
Michael Kraus, Thorsten Voelkel and Gerhard Weber
Human-Computer Interaction Research Group, Technical University of Dresden, Germany

"Assessing the mathematics related communication requirements of the blind in education and career"
Paul Stanley
Lakeland University

"Chemical workbench for blind people"
Federsel Stephan, Kompetenznetzwerk Informationstechnologie zur Förderung der Integration von Menschen mit Behinderung,
Klaus Miesenberger, Johannes Kepler Universitaet, Linz,
Austria

"Inclusive math and science instruction for secondary school students with disability"
Robert L. Todd
Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

"Learning math for visually impaired users"
T. Barbieri, L. Mosca, L. Sbattella
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Italy

"Making arithmetic accessible"
John A Gardner, Carolyn K. Gardner, Blake Jones, Elizabeth Jones
ViewPlus Technologies, Inc., USA

"Manipulative mathematics"
Arthur I Karshmer
San Francisco University, USA

"Multimedia MathReader for Daisy Books"
Piotr Brzoza
Silesian University of Technology, Computer Science Department, Poland

"Multimodal exploration of graph structures"
Cristian Bernareggi, Christian Comaschi, Giancarlo Dalto
Università degli Studi di Milano - Biblioteca di Informatica,
Piero Mussio, Loredana Parasiliti Provenza, Università degli Studi di Milano - Laboratorio di Semiotica Computazionale,
Italy

"New features in math accessibility with Infty software"
Katsuhito Yamaguchi, Toshihiko Komada, Fukashi Kawane, Masakazu Suzuki
Science Access Net, Japan

"Tactile graphics editor with Infty System"
Toshihiro Kanahori, Masayuki Naka, Masakazu Suzuki
Science Access Net, Japan

"Transnational support to visually impaired in scientific university courses"
Cristian Bernareggi, Valeria Brigatti, Università degli Studi di Milano - Biblioteca di Informatica, Italy
Barbara Hengstberger, Johannes Kepler University - Institut Integriert Studieren, Austria

"Universal authoring system for Braille materials by collaboration of UMCL and Infty"
Toshihiro Kanahori, Tsukuba university, Japan
Dominique Archambault, Pierre et Marie Curie Université, France
Masakazu Suzuki, Kyushu university, Japan

"Writing mathematics by speech"
Cristian Bernareggi, Valeria Brigatti, Università degli Studi di Milano - Biblioteca di Informatica, Italy

More details about these articles are available at the Articles section.

Full papers are published in proceedings of ICCHP 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.