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Tangible music programming blocks for visually impaired children

dc.contributor.departmentN/A
dc.contributor.kuauthorSabuncuoğlu, Alpay
dc.contributor.kuprofilePhD Student
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteGraduate School of Sciences and Engineering
dc.contributor.yokidN/A
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:00:55Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractProgramming can benefit children on learning science, math, and creative thinking, and has become a part of the primary school curriculum. However, programming tools for visually impaired children are still scarce. We developed an affordable and accessible tangible music platform for visually impaired children that aims to teach the basics of programming through music creation. By ordering the tangible blocks in an algorithmic structure, the children can create a melody. The physical and conceptual design of the system was developed with the help of visually impaired developers. We conducted a user study with fourteen visually impaired middle school children to observe their interactions with the prototype. In this paper, we present our design, provide several TUI design considerations for students with low to zero sight, and discuss the results of our user study and future directions.
dc.description.indexedbyWoS
dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.openaccessNO
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3374920.3374939
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4503-6107-1
dc.identifier.quartileN/A
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85082440847
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3374920.3374939
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/8148
dc.identifier.wos570009800037
dc.keywordsTangible programming blocks
dc.keywordsMusic programming
dc.keywordsVisually-impaired student education
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherAssoc Computing Machinery
dc.sourceTei'20: Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
dc.subjectComputer science
dc.subjectCbernetics
dc.titleTangible music programming blocks for visually impaired children
dc.typeConference proceeding
dspace.entity.typePublication
local.contributor.authorid0000-0002-4415-0516
local.contributor.kuauthorSabuncuoğlu, Alpay

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