The Development of a Universal Design Tactile Graphics Production System BPLOT2

We introduce a new universal design tactile graphics production system: BPLOT2. With BPLOT2, blind persons and sighted persons can share resources and cooperatively draw tactile graphics to be utilized in braille textbooks and teaching materials. Present tactile graphics design applications have onl...

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Published inComputers Helping People with Special Needs Vol. 5105; pp. 938 - 945
Main Authors Fujiyoshi, Mamoru, Fujiyoshi, Akio, Ohtake, Nobuyuki, Yamaguchi, Katsuhito, Teshima, Yoshinori
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2008
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
GUI
tactile graphics
universal design
visually impaired
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Summary:We introduce a new universal design tactile graphics production system: BPLOT2. With BPLOT2, blind persons and sighted persons can share resources and cooperatively draw tactile graphics to be utilized in braille textbooks and teaching materials. Present tactile graphics design applications have only GUI (Graphical User Interface) with the need for mouse operations and thus are not usable by blind persons. Equally inconvenient, our self-supporting tactile graphics production system for the blind, BPLOT, has only CUI (Character User Interface), so BPLOT is not popular among the sighted. Therefore, we implemented GUI on BPLOT and realized universal design on BPLOT2.
ISBN:9783540705390
3540705392
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_141