jTribe is proudly supporting a research project that aims to help blind and visually impaired people accessing information via an iPad. Haptic feedback will be used to allow blind students accessing graphs and other highly visual information on an iPad device. The research is based on work done at Monash University – jTribe will help by making it available on the iPad device.
The project is using haptic and audio feedback to improve educational opportunities in the blind community by improving access to graphics based on a touchscreen computer.
The plan is to improve blind student’s educational experience and opportunities, particularly in maths, art, design, science and technology. It also has the potential to improve opportunities in the workforce using the haptic feedback to understand graphics of charts; organisational, graphs, spreadsheets.
jTribe will be involved in the iPad app development of the project and we’re partnering with Monash University, Victoria Department of Education & Early Childhood Development, Vision Australia and Catholic Education Office of Melbourne.