Does tactile image have to be tactual?

• Authors: Jarosław Wiazowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article is an analysis of educational assistive technologies that support learners with visual impairments in access to and interaction with graphics for mathematics and related academic areas. We will focus on options for students who require non-visual displays accessed via different remaining senses. Images, diagrams, tables or graphs constitute a significant portion of contemporary math textbooks students work with in schools (Dias et al., 2010; Edman, 1992). They convey information in a more succinct format or illustrate concepts that need a graphical presentation. Options available to put the students with visual impairments on a par with their sighted peers when it comes to creating and interacting with non-visual graphics will be listed and discussed. What has been thought of touch-only information delivery format, has been gaining a new interaction and exploration modality. We will propose a classification of non-visual graphics and how these different propositions impact the didactic process.

PL

W artykule przeanalizowano edukacyjne technologie wspomagające uczniów z niepełnosprawnością wzroku w dostępie do grafik matematycznych i z pokrewnych dziedzin nauk ścisłych. Autor skoncentrował się na opcjach grafik przeznaczonych dla uczniów, które nie wymagają wersji dostępnych za pomocą innych zmysłów. Obrazy, diagramy, tabele i wykresy stanowią znaczną część współczesnych podręczników matematycznych, z którymi uczniowie pracują w szkołach (Dias i in., 2010; Edman, 1992). Dostarczają one koniecznych informacji w zwięzłym formacie i ilustrują pojęcia wymagające wyjaśnienia. Dostępne opcje pozwalają uczniom z niepełnosprawnością wzroku osiągnięcie podobnych możliwości co ich widzący rówieśnicy. Dzięki temu dane, tradycyjnie dostępne tylko przez dotyk, zyskały nową modalność interakcji i eksploracji.

Keywords

EN

tactile; image; blind; onification; mathematics; audio; graph

PL

dotykowy; obraz; niewidomy; sonifikacja; matematyka; audio; wykres; dotykowy; obraz; niewidomy; sonifikacja; matematyka; audio; wykres

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Forum Pedagogiczne
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 45-59

Dates

published

2020-07-18

Contributors

author

Jarosław Wiazowski

• Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6198-0370

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Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/fp.2020.2.04