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MapSense: multi-sensory interactive maps for children living with visual impairments

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posted on 2023-06-09, 15:12 authored by Emeline BruleEmeline Brule, Gilles Bailly, Anke Brock, Frédéric Valentin, Grégoire Denis, Christophe Jouffrais
We report on the design process leading to the creation of MapSense, a multi-sensory interactive map for visually impaired children. We conducted a formative study in a specialized institute to understand children’s educational needs, their context of care and their preferences regarding interactive technologies. The findings (1) outline the needs for tools and methods to help children to acquire spatial skills and (2) provide four design guidelines for educational assistive technologies. Based on these findings and an iterative process, we designed and deployed MapSense in the institute during two days. It enables collaborations between children with a broad range of impairments, proposes reflective and ludic scenarios and allows caretakers to customize it as they wish. A field experiment reveals that both children and caretakers considered the system successful and empowering.

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  • Published

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Journal

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Publisher

ACM

Page range

445-457

Event name

CHI'16 - 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Event location

San Jose, California, USA

Event type

conference

Event date

May 07-12, 2016

Place of publication

New York, NY, United States

ISBN

9781450333627

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  • Engineering and Design Publications

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  • Creative Technology Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-02-15

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-02-15

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-02-15

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