Emma Rowlett, University of Nottingham
30 October 2008
View "Visual Impairment in Maths and Computing Based Subjects" on YouTube.
This talk is a result of both Emma's PhD, entitled "Accessing Materials: making appropriate and effective 'reasonable' adjustments for print impaired students in higher education", and a project she has been working on called "AccessMSOR: LaTeX and Braille". Both of these have investigated the experiences of students with visual impairments taking computing and maths based subjects. The talk will present the findings of this work and provide some hands on simulations of what it might be like to be visually impaired and complete maths and computing based tasks.
"AccessMSOR: LaTeX and Braille" is funded by the Higher Education Academy Maths, Stats and OR Network and operated through Physics & Mathematical Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University.