What challenges and opportunities do we face when we are to teach HCI to blind students, especially among sighted students, and having HCI curricula a traditional strong focus on visual aspects? How do you bring accessibility to learning and teaching a course that itself addresses accessibility? These are a couple of the questions we raised when faced with this challenge. This paper presents ou...

This paper reports on the results from a series of psychoacoustic experiments in the field of the auditory representation of texts via synthetic speech which comprise similar acoustic patterns so called “paronyms”. The errors which occur when listening to paronyms are classified as errors of phonological type. Thirty blind and thirty sighted students participated in psychoacoustic experiments. ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Trauma is a common problem among blindness and visually impaired children. The purpose of the current study was the assessment of the prevalence of traumatic dental injuries and the enamel defects resulted from these injuries among 6-12 years old blind children in comparison to the sighted children in Kerman. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, sample size was considered...

What challenges and opportunities do we face when we are to teach HCI to blind students, especially among sighted students, and having HCI curricula a traditional strong focus on visual aspects? How do you bring accessibility to learning and teaching a course that itself addresses accessibility? These are a couple of the questions we raised when we faced this challenge. This paper presents our ...

Purpose: Curiosity is the basis of learning anything new. Children possess heightened curiosity than adults. Several studies have explored relationship between and motivation. This trait also found to enhance in children. Does this similar significance visually impaired children as sighted children? study aims understand difference two groups with standardized Explorative Inventory (CEI-II.). M...

We develop a model of affirmative action as a large contest wherein students with heterogeneous underlying abilities compete for seats at vertically differentiated colleges that use color-sighted affirmative action policies to evaluate applicants. Students make costly human capital investments before applying, and these investments are both intrinsically productive and serve as signals of abili...

Science learning is a complex task for children at school age, especially for blind children. The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate AudioGene, a game that uses mobile and audio-based technology to assist the interaction between blind and sighted children, and help them to learn biology and become more socially integrated. AudioGene was designed considering the communalities and ...

Writing on the wall I know a resident training in his home province of New Brunswick who will be working in emergency and obstetrics in-hospital when he finishes his residency in a few months. Great. We need that. But he is doing this because the government will not give him a billing number to practise comprehensive family medicine. As a comprehensive family physician he could be delivering ba...