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Touching Geometry for Blind Pupils

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2004)

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This paper describes a system based on haptics and sound, to assist teaching planar geometry to blind pupils, and then provides more details on experiments carried out in a school for visually impaired. This system allows to haptically read, measure and construct geometrical figures. Moreover it can help blind pupils to shape a mental representation of geometrical and topological concepts.

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  1. DIH/OCF, France Télécom R&D, 28 chemin du Vieux Chêne, 38240, Meylan, France

    Sophie Rouzier, Bernard Hennion & Tomás Pérez Segovia

  2. DIH/UCE, France Télécom R&D, 38-40 av. Général Leclerc, 92794, Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex 9, France

    Denis Chêne

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  1. Sophie Rouzier
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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. INSERM U592 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Association BrailleNet, 9, quai Saint Bernard, 75252, Paris cedex 05, France

    Dominique Burger

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Rouzier, S., Hennion, B., Pérez Segovia, T., Chêne, D. (2004). Touching Geometry for Blind Pupils. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Burger, D. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27817-7_104

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