@inproceedings{e567c57dbd1f4b158530ea8544ea1fc1,
title = "Designing educational materials for a blind arduino workshop",
abstract = "There is an overall shortage of accessible educational material available for blind and low vision learners. This shortage is especially pronounced in the domain of electronics, where the materials are historically visually-rendered and complex. To address this, we took a qualitative approach to designing and evaluating tactile graphics and textual descriptions when building circuits. To gain an understanding of their efficacy, we provided a circuit description [3], component diagrams (Figure 4), and a tactile schematic [9] as educational materials in a Blind Arduino workshop with eight participants and interviewed these participants about their experience. Our research revealed the complexities of designing these materials: our tactile component diagrams were usable and helpful, whereas our tactile schematics and circuit descriptions presented learning barriers in a microcontroller workshop. We provide recommendations for future research to design accessible materials to teach electronics.",
keywords = "Accessibility, Blind, Electronic circuits, Inclusive design, Schematics, Tactile graphics",
author = "Lauren Race and Claire Kearney-Volpe and Chancey Fleet and Miele, {Joshua A.} and Tom Igoe and Amy Hurst",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Owner/Author.; 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2020 ; Conference date: 25-04-2020 Through 30-04-2020",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1145/3334480.3383055",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI EA 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}