BrailleBlocks is a tactile gaming system that encourages visually impaired children and their sighted family members to learn Braille together. It's comprised of a set of tangible blocks and pegs, and an associated iPad application with interactive, educational games, such as Hangman, word scramble, and an animal naming game.
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Publications
- Vinitha Gadiraju,ÌýAnnika Muehlbradt, andÌýShaun K. Kane. 2020. BrailleBlocks: Computational Braille Toys for Collaborative Learning. InÌýProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–12. DOI:Ìý(Honolulu, Hawaii (virtual) –ÌýApril 25-30, 2020).
- Vinitha Gadiraju. 2019. BrailleBlocks: Braille Toys for Cross-Ability Collaboration. In The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 688–690. DOI:Ìý(Pittsburgh, PA–Oct. 28, 2019).
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