Title
Building Capacity: eTextile Tactile Storybook Workshops
Abstract
The first step to literacy is engagement with books and the printed word. This is even more important for children who are blind or have severe low vision, as active touch is required for exposure to meaning through tactile books. ETextiles offer an affordable and innovative method for enhancing tactile book pages with sensory inputs and interaction to encourage engagement. We explored the training requirements for people to incorporate eTextiles into tactile story books, even without prior experience or skills. Through the process of creating sample materials and training adults and children at public workshops, we developed a set of guiding principles for facilitating workshops on creating tactile story books with eTextiles to encourage tactile engagement in children with vision impairments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3308561.3354619
The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Keywords
Field
DocType
accessibility, blind, children, etextiles, interaction, tactile, vision impairment, workshops
Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6676-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leona Holloway132.45
Kirsten Ellis2126.50
Louise Curtin300.34