Abstract
The study of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a study of how users interact with the application. The goal of HCI research is to make systems versatile, easy to use, and accessible for the majority of people. With the accelerating growth of the Internet in the last decade, e-learning has become an effective learning mechanism for students around the globe. While computer technologies have successfully remodeled and improved the learning process, the potential promised by these technologies has not become the reality for visually impaired students. Also, the knowledge of math is crucial in any Science, Technology, Engineering and, Math (STEM) career. Due to the lack of interactive e-learning platforms for students with disabilities and the inability to process complex mathematical formulas and visual cues, students with vision-impairment are at a disadvantage. The motivation of this paper is to introduce a prototype of the web application, MyA+ Math that will help students with vision-impairment learn and understand math concepts. We hope that the use and further development of our prototype shall open doors towards universal education.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Miniwatts Marketing Group. Internet World Stats: Internet Growth Statistics. https://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm. Accessed 22 Feb 2020
We are Social Inc.: Digital 2019: Global Internet Use Accelerates. https://wearesocial.com/blog/2019/01/digital-2019-global-internet-use-accelerates. Accessed 22 Feb 2020
Miniwatts Marketing Group: Internet Usage Statistics: The Internet Big Picture World Internet Users and Population Stats (2019). https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm Last accessed 22 Feb 2020
Statistical Snapshots from the American Foundation for the Blind. https://www.afb.org/research-and-initiatives/statistics. Accessed 22 Feb 2020
https://www.talater.com/annyang/. Accessed 22 Feb 2020
Burgstahler, S.E., Cory, R.C.: Universal Design in Higher Education. Universal Design in Higher Education: From Principles to Practice, pp. 3–20 (2008)
Guerreiro, T., Nicolau, H., Jorge, J., Gonçalves, D.: NavTap: a long term study with excluded blind users. In: Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, pp. 99–106 (2009)
Gulley, A.P., Smith, L.A.C., Price, J.A., Prickett, L.C., Ragland, M.F.: Process-driven math: an auditory method of mathematics instruction and assessment for students who are blind or have low vision (2017)
Hewett, T.T., et al.: ACM SIGCHI curricula for human-computer interaction. Technical report, New York, NY, USA (1992)
The Global Burden of Vision Impairment (2015). http://atlas.iapb.org/global-burden-vision-impairment/. Accessed 22 Feb 2020
Iwarsson, S., Ståhl, A.: Accessibility, usability and universal design–positioning and definition of concepts describing person-environment relationships. Disabil. Rehabil. 25(2), 57–66 (2003)
Lawrence, D.O., Ashleigh, M.: Impact of human-computer interaction (HCI) on users in higher educational system: Southampton university as a case study. Int. J. Manag. Technol. 6(3), 1–12 (2019)
mXparser - math expressions parser for JAVA android C#.NET/MONO/Xamarin - mathematical formula parser/evaluator library. http://mathparser.org/. Accessed 22 Feb 2020
Nazemi, A., Murray, I., Mohammadi, N.: Mathspeak: an audio method for presenting mathematical formulae to blind students. In: 2012 5th International Conference on Human System Interactions, pp. 48–52. IEEE (2012)
Ostroff, E.: Universal design: an evolving paradigm. Univ. Design Handb. 2, 34–42 (2011)
Ramakrishnan, I.V., Ashok, V., Billah, S.M.: Non-visual web browsing: beyond web accessibility. In: Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (eds.) UAHCI 2017. LNCS, vol. 10278, pp. 322–334. Springer, Cham (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58703-5_24
https://responsivevoice.org/. Accessed 22 Feb 2020
http://www.wiris.com/editor/demo/en/developers. Accessed 22 Feb 2020
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Jariwala, A., Marghitu, D., Chapman, R. (2020). MyA+ Math: Teaching Math to Students with Vision Impairment. In: Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Practice. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12189. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49108-6_15
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49108-6_15
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-49107-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-49108-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)