Accessing and Dealing with Mathematics as a Blind Individual: State of the Art and Challenges

Bernhard Stöger; Klaus Miesenberger

Accessing and Dealing with Mathematics as a Blind Individual: State of the Art and Challenges

Institute Integrated Studies

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Abstract

Whereas the computer has been extremely helpful for blind individuals to cope with very many aspects of daily life, its support for managing Mathematics to the target group is still quite limited. This is a critical problem, because on the one hand Mathematics becomes more and more important for education, on the other hand blind people face tremendous problems in dealing with the subject. Information Technology has a high potential to support blind people in overcoming these problems, a potential that has not yet been fully exhausted. The current paper, updating information from a publication by Archambault and others, will give an overview of the extent to which that potential is currently exploited, by summarizing the state of the art of IT to support the target group in Mathematics, with an emphasis on contributions delivered at our university. It also points out a series of open problems to be overcome by future research, describing challenges for improving the current situation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference ICEAPVI
Editors	Georgios Kouroupetroglou
Pages	201
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - Feb 2015

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SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Fields of science

102 Computer Sciences
102013 Human-computer interaction
102014 Information design
102015 Information systems
102021 Pervasive computing
102022 Software development
102024 Usability research
102026 Virtual reality
102027 Web engineering
502007 E-commerce
506002 E-government
509002 Disability studies
602013 Sign language research
202004 Brain-computer interface
211902 Assistive technologies
503008 E-learning
302027 Hearing, voice and language disorders

JKU Focus areas

Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
Social Systems, Markets and Welfare States
Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)

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