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<h3 align="center"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Haptic
Grapher </font></h3>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In conjunction with the
W Ross MacDonald School for students with visual disabilities in Brantford
Ontario, the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre has undertaken the development
of a haptics graphing tool. The Haptic Grapher will allow students the ability
to "feel" computer generated line graphs. </font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Students with visual disabilities
face great challenges when attempting to learn information depicted in a graphical
mode. Methods for teaching graphing skills to such students are primitive
at best. Often teachers spend extraordinary amounts of time using string,
"sticky wicket" and spray glues in order to be able to build tactile versions
of relatively simple graphs. </font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Haptic Grapher generates
a line according to coordinates entered by either student or teacher. Students
can change coordinates, and add or subtract points from the line, and the
Haptic Grapher will dynamically generate the new line. After completing the
line, students grasping a Wingman mouse and/or joystick, are "moved" through
the various points on the line, thereby offering visually disabled students
a sense of the overall shape of the line. It is the intention of the development
team that the Haptic Grapher will also be capable of printing out Braille
versions of the graphs generated. </font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Accessibility features
of the Haptic Grapher include: </font></p>
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<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Full keyboard accessibility</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Haptics application
adds "feel" to line images on screen</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Self-voicing </font></li>
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<p><a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre</font></a></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">J.P. Robarts
Library, First Floor, University of Toronto Information Commons <br>
130 St. George St. Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H1 <br>
Telephone: (416) 978-4360 Fax: (416) 971-2629 </font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> For additional information
please e-mail <a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/reference/staff/harrison/harrison.html">Laurie
Harrison</a></font></p>
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