Note-taker 3.0: an assistive technology enabling students who are legally blind to take notes in class

Note-taker 3.0

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Authors:

D. Hayden, M.J. Astrauskas, Q. Yan, L. Zhou, J. Black

Source:

The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility, ACM, New York, NY, USA, p.269–270 (2011)

ISBN:

978-1-4503-0920-2

URL:

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2049536.2049601

Keywords:

Classroom Accessibility, Legally Blind, Low Vision, Note Taker, Note-taker, Note-taking, Pen Computer, Stem and Tablet PC

Document:

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Authors

David Hayden

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David Hayden

Masters Student Researcher

Michael J. Astrauskas

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Michael J. Astrauskas

Undergrad Student Researcher

Qian Yan

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Qian Yan

Master's Student

Liqing Zhou

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Liqing Zhou

Master's Student

John A. Black, Jr

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John A. Black, Jr

Research Scientist

Projects

The Note-Taker
The Note-Taker

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,…

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