Presenter
Greg Williams PhD
Independence Science, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Abstract
There is a lot of excitement in the blind community because several multi-line braille displays capable of displaying data and graphical content are on the verge of being commercially available. Although many of us have dreamed about possible applications for multi-line displays for years, there is still much exploration and research to be done on how these can and should be implemented. Independence Science received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a prototype to explore whether and how multi-line braille displays could be used with laboratory sensors to collect and display data in a table and as a graph in real-time. This talk will discuss what we learned while developing our prototype which used an Android app to collect data from Vernier Science Education GoDirect sensors and display it on the Cadence Tablet from Tactile Engineering. We will discuss the findings from our user study and possible future plans.