Mathspeak: An Audio Method for Presenting Mathematical Formulae to Blind Students
This paper describes the problems involved with learning and understanding math for vision impaired students and developing a computer system approach for rendering mathematical formulae into audio form. Access to mathematics is an obstacle for blind students. The lack of easy access to mathematical...
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| author | Nazemi, Azadeh Murray, Iain Mohammadi, N. |
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| description | This paper describes the problems involved with learning and understanding math for vision impaired students and developing a computer system approach for rendering mathematical formulae into audio form. Access to mathematics is an obstacle for blind students. The lack of easy access to mathematical resources is a barrier to higher education for many blind students and puts them at an unfair disadvantage in school, academia, and industry [1]. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that there is great disparity between the math skills of students with disabilities and students without disabilities [2]. A methodology for rendering technical documents, in particular, complex mathematical formula, in an audio descriptive form (Mathspeak) is presented in this paper. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-362512017-09-13T15:18:08Z Mathspeak: An Audio Method for Presenting Mathematical Formulae to Blind Students Nazemi, Azadeh Murray, Iain Mohammadi, N. IEEE PROFESSOR KOUHEI OHNISHI, FIEEE, FIEEJ LaTex ASTER MathMl Vision-impaired DotPlus Amsmath Braille Mathematics formulae This paper describes the problems involved with learning and understanding math for vision impaired students and developing a computer system approach for rendering mathematical formulae into audio form. Access to mathematics is an obstacle for blind students. The lack of easy access to mathematical resources is a barrier to higher education for many blind students and puts them at an unfair disadvantage in school, academia, and industry [1]. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that there is great disparity between the math skills of students with disabilities and students without disabilities [2]. A methodology for rendering technical documents, in particular, complex mathematical formula, in an audio descriptive form (Mathspeak) is presented in this paper. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36251 10.1109/HSI.2012.17 The IEEE Computer Society Press fulltext |
| spellingShingle | LaTex ASTER MathMl Vision-impaired DotPlus Amsmath Braille Mathematics formulae Nazemi, Azadeh Murray, Iain Mohammadi, N. Mathspeak: An Audio Method for Presenting Mathematical Formulae to Blind Students |
| title | Mathspeak: An Audio Method for Presenting Mathematical Formulae to Blind Students |
| title_full | Mathspeak: An Audio Method for Presenting Mathematical Formulae to Blind Students |
| title_fullStr | Mathspeak: An Audio Method for Presenting Mathematical Formulae to Blind Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mathspeak: An Audio Method for Presenting Mathematical Formulae to Blind Students |
| title_short | Mathspeak: An Audio Method for Presenting Mathematical Formulae to Blind Students |
| title_sort | mathspeak: an audio method for presenting mathematical formulae to blind students |
| topic | LaTex ASTER MathMl Vision-impaired DotPlus Amsmath Braille Mathematics formulae |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36251 |