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Enabling the legally blind in classroom note-taking

Published: 13 October 2008 Publication History

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Classroom note-taking has been shown to be beneficial, even if the student never reviews his/her own notes. Students that are legally blind are thus at a disadvantage because they face significant barriers to note-taking in the classroom. This presentation demonstrates a working prototype of the CUbiC Note Taker, which is a highly portable device that allows students who are legally blind to take their own notes in class without any special in-classroom accommodations, and without requiring lecturers to adapt their presentation in any way.

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Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2008
332 pages
ISBN:9781595939760
DOI:10.1145/1414471
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  1. assistive note-taking
  2. automatic note-taking
  3. blind
  4. lecture
  5. lecture notes
  6. low-vision
  7. meeting
  8. note-taker
  9. note-taking
  10. notes
  11. student

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