Tactilelink Tastbare Grafiese Onderwysstelsel deur Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Die ontwerp Tactilelink Tastbare Grafiese Onderwysstelsel deur Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin is 'n hoogs gewaardeerde wenner van die baie prestigieuese 2026 A' Design Award in Brons in die Onderwys, Onderrighulpmiddel en Opleidingsinhoud Ontwerp-kompetisiekategorie.

BronsOnderwys· 2026

Tactilelink Tastbare Grafiese Onderwysstelsel

deur Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Kliënt: Nuoran Chen

Wenner van die A' Design Award in Brons in die Onderwys-kategorie

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Die Ontwerp

Oor Tactilelink Tastbare Grafiese Onderwysstelsel

Tactilelink is 'n tastbare grafiese onderwysstelsel vir blinde en gesiggestremde studente. Tradisionele hand-oor-hand-onderrig beperk studente se onafhanklikheid en is afhanklik van 'n skaars aantal spesialisonderwysers. Tactilelink kombineer 'n 3D-gedrukte tabletraam, verhewe lyngrafika van stroombaandiagramme en kruisplatform-sagteware. Sonifikasie lei elke student na 'n teikenkomponent, aangesien die toonhoogte en intensiteit van die klank verander met die afstand van die vinger. Instrukteurs kan verskeie studente gelyktydig volg en klankannotasies voorberei vir onafhanklike hersiening ná die klas.

Die Erkenning

Oor die A' Design Award in Brons

Tactilelink Tastbare Grafiese Onderwysstelsel is 'n wenner van die A' Design Award in Brons, 'n hoogs prestigieuse erkenning wat toegeken word aan uitstaande ontwerpe wat gekenmerk word deur kreatiwiteit, vindingrykheid en skerpsinnigheid. Wenners in Brons is ruimskoots vaardige en opvallend kreatiewe artefakte wat die groot ervaring, verbeelding en vindingrykheid van hul ontwerpers bevestig. Daar word verwag dat Tactilelink Tastbare Grafiese Onderwysstelsel 'n hoog aangeskrewe, bewonderde en gekoesterde voorwerp is wat merkwaardig professioneel en innoverend is. Hierdie ontwerp wat die A' Design Award in Brons gewen het, inkorporeer die beste praktyke in kuns, wetenskap, ontwerp en tegnologie en is uitstekend vanweë sy aandag aan detail. Tactilelink Tastbare Grafiese Onderwysstelsel bevredig behoeftes pragtig, raak aan begeertes, bekoor gevoelens en spreek die nuuskierigheid aan.

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Unieke Eienskappe: Tactilelink is an affordable tactile graphic education system for blind and visually impaired students. Traditional hand-over-hand instruction limits students' independence and strains an already scarce specialist workforce. SoundPath lets a single instructor guide multiple students at once through sonification and voiceover annotations, making tactile graphic learning accessible, scalable, and independent.
Afmetings & Verpakking: The physical components include a 3D-printed tablet frame (290 × 226 × 7 mm) and several tactile graphics of Arduino diagrams (279.4 × 215.9 mm). The digital component is cross-platform software that works as both a tablet app and a desktop web app, creating a flexible teaching system.
Etikette: Accessibility, Tactile graphic, Education system, Inclusive education, Blind Arduino
Produksietegnologie: Tactilelink is built with simplicity, affordability, and accessibility in mind. For student’s system, it combines 3D-printed tablet frames with software optimized for common educational tablets, ensuring easy setup and scalability. It uses sonification to guide students in exploring and learning raised-line graphics. For instructor’s system, it’s an one-step, AI empowered software help they instruct multiple students easily, reducing their workload, expanding the educational capacity to more underserved blind students.
Ontwerpuitdaging: The hardest part was shifting from designer to facilitator. Co-design challenged us to suspend our assumptions, especially as sighted designers. We wrongly assumed blind users would prefer vibration cues over sound. In reality, sonification was less fatiguing and more effective. This required overcoming internal bias, embracing user knowledge, and adapting to insights often overlooked due to our own perspective.
Navorsing: This research is user-centered design. Our goal was to create an affordable system for teaching tactile graphics to visually impaired students. We observed Blind Arduino sessions and collaborated with the East Bay Center for the Blind, then used co-design workshops, Wizard of Oz prototyping, and usability testing with teachers and students. Results showed sonification on existing hardware best supported group learning, offering insights that impact education, accessibility, and inclusive design.
Inspirasie: The idea came from observing an Arduino class at the East Bay Center for the Blind, where one instructor had to physically guide each student's hands through circuit diagrams one by one. With nearly 5,000 specialist teachers short across the U.S., this one-on-one model is unsustainable. Inspired by sonification, we use continuous pitch changes to guide students to target components independently, enabling one teacher to instruct multiple students simultaneously, in person or remotely.
Projekduur: This project started in August 2024 and finished in December 2024.
Bedryfsvloei: During class, the instructor taps a selected component on the tactile graphic for students to explore. Students navigate to the component following sonification guidance: the pitch and intensity of the sound shift based on how close their finger is to the target. Teacher can observes their progress on their interface to provide real-time support. After class, teachers could use the software to create detailed audio annotation and design the component-learning sequence, publishing it to student’s device. Students could review the knowledge independently without teacher’s presence by following the sonification guidance.
Spanlede: Nuoran Chen
Yilin Niu
Siming (Susie) Jin