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Talk to the hand: An agenda for further research on tactile graphics.

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posted on 2023-06-07, 18:09 authored by Frances Aldrich
Tactile graphics are the primary means by which blind people access maps, graphs, diagrams and other graphical representations. Tactile graphics are made up of raised lines, areas, textures and symbols, and are intended to be felt rather than seen. Major obstacles to the successful use of tactile graphics are that: touch cannot discriminate the fine detail that sight can; extracting information through a sequence of touches, then re-integrating it, imposes a heavy memory load; and many graphical representations need visual experience for interpretation.

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  • Published

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Springer

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  • paper

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

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conference

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  • Psychology Publications

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2012-02-06

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