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Development of Tactile Graph Generation Web Application Using R Statistics Software Environment

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: We have developed software that uses the R statistics software environment to automatically generate tactile graphs — i.e. graphs that can be read by blind people using their sense of touch. We released this software as a Web application to make it available to anyone, from anywhere. This Web application can automatically generate images for tactile graphs from numerical data in a CSV file. It is currently able to generate four types of graph — scatter plots, line graphs, bar charts and pie charts. This paper describes the Web application's functions, operating procedures and the results of evaluation experiments.

Source: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2015edp7405

Authors: Tetsuya WATANABE, Kosuke ARAKI, Toshimitsu YAMAGUCHI, Kazunori MINATANI

Institutions: Niigata University, National Center for University Entrance Examinations

Language: English

Topic: Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Awards: A Development of Conversion Techniques of OMR Sheet Exams for Test-takers with Disabilities, Research on the computerized system to make Digital Textbooks Ranging from Mathematics and Science to Others be barrier-free