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Yessi Pratiwi — December 25, 2007 / 10:27 pm
Imagine of tackling subjects like physics, calculus and chemist topics without being able to see the graphs and figures used to teach blinds. They have to study with a narrow imagination.
Besides, there will be so many constraints in the study, while you know, they need to explore the subjects to understand it. Visual disabilities make significant disadvantage to them.
But, Van Schaack and colleague Joshua Miele, a researcher at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute who is blind, have developed a new system to enable students and teachers to produce and explore diagrams and figures through touch and sound using a smartpen and paper technology that is low-cost, portable and easy to use.
Van Schaack and Miele will be using a prototype of the Livescribe smartpen and a Sewell Raised Line Drawing Kit, a Mylar-like film that is deformed when a student writes on it with a pen, creating raised drawings.
The Livescribe smartpen recognizes handwritten marks through a camera inside its tip that focuses on a minute pattern of dots printed on paper. It captures over 100 hours of audio through a built-in microphone and plays audio back through a built-in speaker or 3D recording headset.
Files are uploaded from the pen to a computer using a USB connection. Students will be able to touch a hand-drawn figure with their smartpen to hear audio explanations of its features.
Adapted from materials provided by Vanderbilt University.
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