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Nowadays there are many problems with the access to scientific and educational materials for visually impaired people. It especially refers to learning mathematic. Only a small number of such materials is published in a form accessible for blind and low vision people. Particularly, it limits significantly disabled persons to participate in education research and engineering works in many science and technology disciplines. Fortunately new technological solutions, such as e-learning become more and more popular, and many universities use it to improve educational offer and create new possibilities for disabled people. However, in many cases it may cause the problems with accessibility. The article presents developed, intelligent, interactive tutoring platform for math teaching. Currently, the platform is used in the process of education of students from Faculty of Mathematics at Silesian University of Technology, and disabled students from others faculties of the University. The research results clearly indicate the improvement of learning quality by visually impaired people, and also confirm the efficacy of designed rules for adapting mathematical formulas to visually impaired people needs.
The original version of this chapter was revised: An additional reference was added. The erratum to this chapter is available at 10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_103
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Brzoza, P., Maćkowski, M. (2014). Intelligent Tutoring Math Platform Accessible for Visually Impaired People. In: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Peňáz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8547. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_81
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