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2011
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Toward haptic/aural touchscreen display of graphical mathematics for the education of blind students
We propose the use of a haptic touchscreen to convey graphical and mathematical concepts through aural and/or vibratory tactile feedback. We hypothesize that an important applicat...
Jenna L. Toennies, Jessica Burgner, Thomas J. With...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Eden: a professional multitouch tool for constructing virtual organic environments
Set construction is the process of selecting and positioning virtual geometric objects to create a virtual environment used in a computer-animated film. Set construction artists ...
Kenrick Kin, Tom Miller, Björn Bollensdorff, ...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Infrastructures for low-cost laptop use in Mexican schools
In recent years, a number of low-cost laptops have been created for children’s education, most notably the XO, developed by One Laptop per Child to embody principles of construc...
Ruy Cervantes, Mark Warschauer, Bonnie A. Nardi, N...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
The concept maps method as a tool to evaluate the usability of APIs
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the interfaces to existing code structures, such as widgets, frameworks, or toolkits. Therefore, they very much do have an impact on ...
Jens Gerken, Hans-Christian Jetter, Michael Zö...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Brick by brick: iterating interventions to bridge the achievement gap with virtual peers
We lay out one strand of a continuing investigation into the development of a virtual peer to help children learn to use “school English” and “school-ratified science talk...
Emilee Rader, Margaret Echelbarger, Justine Cassel...