Student Project Aimed at Helping the Visually Impaired Take Notes in Class Wins Prize at Microsoft Imagine Cup Michael J. Astrauskas, David Hayden, Qian Yan, John A. Black, Jr. Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing, Arizona State University 699 S. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ 85281 {michael.astrauskas, dshayden, qian.yan, jblack}@asu.edu Abstract Students with low vision typically use an assistive technology (such as a monocular) to see the front of the classroom. Switching between sitting erect to view the front of the room through the monocular, hunching down to take handwritten notes, and then sitting up again greatly slows down note-taking. In a fast paced class (with a lot of board work) this delay can cause the student to fall behind in note-taking, compared to his or her fullysighted peers. The Note-Taker is designed to allow students with low vision to hover over a Tablet PC laptop to simultaneously view a zoomed-in video of the front of the classroom and take handwritten notes on the Tablet PC surface with a stylus. Introduction In the Fall of 2007 at Arizona State University (ASU) undergraduate David Hayden added a mathematics major to his Computer Science major, and registered for 3 senior-level math classes.
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