Graphic haptic electronic board-based education assistive technology system for blind people

Abstract

This paper proposes an education assistive technology system based on a graphic haptic electronic board for improving the effects of education for the visually impaired in a special education environment for both low-vision and blind students. The system comprises of authoring and teaching SW for educators, viewer SW for students with low vision, and graphic haptic electronic board HW for blind students. The proposed system enables authoring of education materials, automatic conversion and real-time distribution of education materials for low-vision and blind students, based on which effective special education classes can be provided, similar to the smart classes in the general education environment. © 2015 IEEE.