ACM ISS 2022
Sun 20 - Thu 24 November 2022 Wellington, New Zealand

The lockdown period related to the COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on the educational system in general, but more particularly on the special education system. Indeed, in the case of people with visual impairments, the regular tools relying heavily on images and videos were no longer usable. This specific situation highlighted an urgent need to develop tools that are accessible and that can provide solutions for remote teaching with people with VI. However, there is little work on the difficulties that this population encounters when they learn remotely as well as on the current practices of special education teachers. Such a lack of understanding limits the development of remote teaching systems that are adapted. In this paper, we conducted an online survey regarding the practices of 59 professionals giving lessons to pupils with VI, followed by a series of focus groups with special education workers facing teaching issues during the lockdown period. We followed an iterative design process where we designed successive low-fidelity prototypes to drive successive focus groups. We contribute with an analysis of the issues faced by special education teachers in this situation, and a concept to drive the future development of a tool for remote graphic-based teaching with pupils with VI.

Tue 22 Nov

Displayed time zone: Auckland, Wellington change

15:30 - 16:30
Session 6: Collaboration 2Papers at Rutherford House Lecture Theatre 2
Chair(s): Danielle Lottridge University of Auckland
15:30
20m
Talk
Remote Graphic-Based Teaching for Pupils with Visual Impairments: Understanding Current Practices and Co-designing an Accessible Tool with Special Education Teachers
Papers
Kaixing Zhao Northwestern Polytechnical University, Julie Mulet University of Toulouse, Clara Sorita University of Toulouse, Bernard Oriola CNRS, Marcos Serrano IRIT - University Toulouse, Christophe Jouffrais CNRS
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15:50
20m
Talk
Towards Immersive Collaborative Sensemaking
Papers
Ying Yang Monash University, Tim Dwyer Monash University, Michael Wybrow Monash University, Benjamin Lee Monash University, Maxime Cordeil University of Queensland, Mark Billinghurst University of Auckland, University of South Australia, Bruce H. Thomas University of South Australia
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16:10
20m
Talk
Push, Tap, Dwell, and Pinch: Evaluation of Four Mid-air Selection Methods Augmented with Ultrasonic Haptic FeedbackBest Paper
Papers
Tafadzwa Joseph Dube University of California, Yuan Ren University of California, Hannah Limerick Ultrahaptics, Scott MacKenzie York University, Ahmed Arif University of California, Merced
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