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Solutions To Accessibility In Art & Design: A Multi-Sensory Art Installation, Olivia M. Robertson
Solutions To Accessibility In Art & Design: A Multi-Sensory Art Installation, Olivia M. Robertson
Graphic Communication
For my Senior Project, I wanted to explore possible solutions to accessibility in Art & Design while narrowing my focus specifically towards visual impairments by applying techniques commonly used in printed electronics methodology. I wanted to further showcase the impact of how designers enhance the overall user experience when they choose to center their focus on designing for accessibility.
To tackle accessibility challenges in Art & Design when it comes to visual impairments, I would have to extend Art’s visual impairments to include senses other than sight– tactile and auditory. The final product would then be an interactive art piece …
Creating A Printed Electronic Tangible User Interface Suitable For Primary Education Settings, Lauren Toler
Creating A Printed Electronic Tangible User Interface Suitable For Primary Education Settings, Lauren Toler
All Theses
With the growing popularity of interactive learning, an experiment developing a tangible user interface made of paper was performed. Screen printing was utilized to print conductive traces that would connect to a device that has capacitive touch capabilities. A color mixing program was coded to accompany the tangible interface. It was found that a tangible user interface can be successfully made of paper. Further research with development, construction, and testing of this paper tangible interface was proposed.