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  • Touching Movement: 3D Tactile Poses for Supporting Blind People in Learning Body Movements

    Kengo Tanaka, Xiyue Wang, Hironobu Takagi, Yoichi Ochiai, Chieko Asakawa · 2026 · Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '26)

    Tanaka and colleagues investigate whether 3D-printed tactile models of whole-body poses can help blind learners acquire physical movements that are normally taught through visual demonstration. Verbal descriptions are notoriously inconsistent and struggle to convey nuance, while…

    tactile graphics · 3D printing · blindness and low vision · visual impairment · physical activity

  • MotionBuddy: Exploring Tactile-Based Motion Learning with a Tabletop Humanoid Robot for Blind People

    Kengo Tanaka, Xiyue Wang, Hironobu Takagi, Yoichi Ochiai, Chieko Asakawa · 2026 · Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '26)

    This HRI 2026 study by the same team behind the earlier 3D tactile-pose work asks whether a tabletop humanoid robot can convey dynamic body movements to blind learners more effectively than audio instruction alone. The motivation is that physical 3D models and tactile graphics…

    human-robot interaction · humanoid robot · assistive robotics · blindness and low vision · visual impairment

  • Nonvisual Support for Understanding and Reasoning about Data Structures

    Brianna L. Wimer, Ritesh Kanchi, Kaija Frierson, Venkatesh Potluri, Ronald A. Metoyer, Jennifer Mankoff, Miya Natsuhara, Matt X. Wang · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

    Wimer, Kanchi, and colleagues present Arboretum, a web-based system that generates accessible representations of introductory data structure diagrams (arrays and binary trees) for blind and visually impaired (BVI) computer science students. The authors argue that current…

    blind and low vision · BVI · screen readers · tactile graphics · data structures

  • Accessible Web Development: Opportunities to Improve the Education and Practice of web Development with a Screen Reader

    Claire Ferrari, Amy Hurst · 2021 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

    This paper investigates accessibility barriers faced by blind web developers in both educational and professional contexts. The researchers employed a Comprehensive Literature Review (CLR) methodology—synthesizing academic literature, blog posts by blind programmers, email list…

    blind programmers · screen readers · web development · CSS · accessible education

  • Inspiring Blind High School Students to Pursue Computer Science with Instant Messaging Chatbots

    Jeffrey P. Bigham, Maxwell B. Aller, Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jessica O. Leung, Lindsay A. Yazzolino, Richard E. Ladner · 2008 · Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '08)

    This paper describes the design and delivery of a four-day computer science workshop for fifteen blind high school students at the National Federation of the Blind Youth Slam, where two hundred blind and low vision students explored disciplines often perceived as inaccessible to…

    accessible education · blind students · screen readers · computer science education · inclusive design

  • A no-frills approach for accessible Web-based learning material

    Valeria Mirabella, Stephen Kimani, Tiziana Catarci · 2004 · Proceedings of the 2004 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper from Sapienza University of Rome proposes a methodology for creating accessible web-based learning materials that centres the role of the "didactical expert" (instructional designer/subject matter expert) rather than relying solely on technical accessibility…

    e-learning · accessible education · learning objects · alternative content · XML

  • Modeling Educational Software for People with Disabilities: Theory and Practice

    Nelson Baloian, Wolfram Luther, Jaime Sánchez · 2002 · Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets 02)

    This paper proposes a unified modelling framework for developing educational software for people with sensory disabilities, drawing on two existing systems as case studies: AudioDoom for blind children and Whisper for hearing-impaired users. The authors argue that interactive…

    accessible education · blind users · deaf users · sensory disabilities · audio games

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