Qian Yan

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Qian Yan

Position

Master's Student

Department

School of Industrial Design

Contact

qyan8@asu.edu

Publications

Student project aimed at helping the visually impaired take notes in class wins prize at Microsoft Imagine Cup
M.J. Astrauskas, D. Hayden, Q. Yan, J. Black,
2011
Note-taker 3.0: an assistive technology enabling students who are legally blind to take notes in class
D. Hayden, M.J. Astrauskas, Q. Yan, L. Zhou, J. Black,
2011

Projects

To take notes in class, students with visual impairments must rapidly switch between writing their notes (a near-sight task) and viewing a board at the front of the classroom (a far-sight task). Current assistive technologies provide magnification for near-sight tasks,…