An Experimental Approach in Conceptualizing Typographic Signals of Documents by Eight-Dot and Six-Dot Braille Code

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• 作者：Vassilios Argyropoulos (17)
  Aineias Martos (17) (18)
  Georgios Kouroupetroglou (18)
  Sofia Chamonikolaou (17)
  Magda Nikolaraizi (17)
  
• 关键词：typographic signals ; 6 ; dot braille ; 8 ; dot braille ; braille display ; blindness ; document accessibility ; assistive technology
• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：8514
• 期：1
• 页码：83-92
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• 作者单位：Vassilios Argyropoulos (17)
  Aineias Martos (17) (18)
  Georgios Kouroupetroglou (18)
  Sofia Chamonikolaou (17)
  Magda Nikolaraizi (17)
  
  17. Department of Special Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
  18. Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  
• ISSN：1611-3349

文摘

The main research aim of the present study focuses on issues of reading comprehension, when users with blindness receive typographic meta-data by touch through a braille display. Levels of reading comprehension are investigated by the use of 6-dot and 8-dot braille code in matched texts for the cases of bold and italic meta-data. The results indicated a slight superiority of the 8-dot braille code in reading time and scorings. The discussion considered the practical implications of the findings such as issues regarding education as well as the development of suitable design of tactile rendition of typographic signals through 6-dot or 8-dot braille code in favor of better perception and comprehension.