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JBrick: accessible lego mindstorm programming tool for users who are visually impaired

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ASSETS '10: Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1878803.1878866

Published: 25 October 2010 Publication History

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Despite advances in assistive technology, relatively few visually impaired students participate in computer science courses. Significant factors in this underrepresentation include lack of precollege preparation, access to resources, and the highly visual nature of computing. This poster describes the development of a prototype to provide an accessible programming environment for Lego Mindstorm NXT. With the popularity of robotics in both pre-college and introductory programming classes, such an environment has the potential to better accommodate students who are visually impaired. JBrick's motivation in addition to its design will be presented.

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JBrick: accessible lego mindstorm programming tool for users who are visually impaired
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
    2. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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ASSETS '10: Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

October 2010

346 pages

ISBN:9781605588810

DOI:10.1145/1878803

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Armando Barreto
Florida International University, USA
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Vicki L. Hanson
University of Dundee, UK

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