PROJECT TITLE :

The Haptic Deictic System—HDS: Bringing Blind Students to Mainstream Classrooms

ABSTRACT :

Arithmetic instruction and discourse usually involve two modes of communication: speech and graphical presentation. For the communication to remain situated, dynamic synchrony should be maintained between the speech and dynamic focus in the graphics. In sighted folks, vision is used for 2 functions: access to graphical material and awareness of embodied behavior. This embodiment awareness keeps communication situated with visual material and speech. Our goal is to assist students who are blind or visually impaired (SBVI) in the access to such instruction/communication. We have a tendency to employ the standard approach of sensory replacement for the missing visual sense. Haptic fingertip reading will replace visual material. We tend to wish to create the SBVI aware of the deictic gestures performed by the teacher over the graphic in conjunction with speech. We employ a haptic glove interface to facilitate this embodiment awareness. We tend to address problems from the conception through the look and implementation to the effective and successful use of our Haptic Deictic System (HDS) in inclusive lecture rooms.