Tactilelink Tembiapo Mbo'ehára Sistema Ta'anga Pokarẽme g̃uarã (Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil) Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin omba'apóva

Tactilelink Tembiapo Mbo'ehára Sistema Ta'anga Pokarẽme g̃uarã (Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil) Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin omba'apóva ha'e rembiporuarã oñemba'eguaséva 2026 A' Design Award Brónse pegua Mbo'e Jejapo Ñeha'ã Categoría-pe.

BrónseMbo'e· 2026

Tactilelink Tembiapo Mbo'ehára Sistema Ta'anga Pokarẽme g̃uarã (Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil)

Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin -gua

Mba'eporuhára: Nuoran Chen

A' Design Award Brónse Rembiporuarã Mbo'e Categoría-pe

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Premio Rembiporuarã Oñemoneĩva

Emoneĩ Premio Reko #177478 Peg̃ua

Ehecha A' Design Award-pe Marandu Myasãi Mba'ete Jeguerohory

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Diseño

Tactilelink Tembiapo Mbo'ehára Sistema Ta'anga Pokarẽme g̃uarã (Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil) Rehegua

Tactilelink ha'e peteĩ sistema oporombo'éva ta'anga pokarẽme rupive umi temimbo'e ndohecháiva térã ohecha'ivéva g̃uarã. Ñembo'e ymaguare, oĩháme mbo'ehára oipokoka temimbo'épe, omomichĩ temimbo'e rekosãso ha oikotevẽ mbo'ehára katupyry sa'ietereívare. Tactilelink ombojoaju peteĩ tableta rembe'y ojejapóva impresión 3D rupive, ta'anga circuito rehegua tairenda opu'ãva ipire ári, ha software oikóva opaichagua plataforma-pe. Pu ñehendukuaa (sonificación) omoirũ ha oisãmbyhy peteĩteĩ temimbo'épe peteĩ mba'e ojehekáva gotyo, pu yvatekue ha imbaretekue oñemoambue jave temimbo'e kuã oĩháicha mombyry térã ag̃ui chugui. Mbo'eharakuéra ikatu ohechakuaa heta temimbo'épe peteĩ jeýpe ha ombosako'i ñe'ẽ ñemoñe'ẽ oñeñongatúva (anotación de audio) temimbo'e ohesa'ỹijo hag̃ua ha'eño mbo'ehao rire.

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A' Design Award Brónse Rehegua

Tactilelink Tembiapo Mbo'ehára Sistema Ta'anga Pokarẽme g̃uarã (Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil) ohupyty A' Design Award Brónse, peteĩ ñehechakuaa heta prestigioso oñeme'ẽva diseño sobresaliente-pe ojekuaáva creatividad, ingenio ha astucia rupi. Umi ganador Brónse ha'e artefacto hábil ha creativo ohechaukáva experiencia, imaginación ha recurso umi diseñador-pe. Oñeha'ãrõ Tactilelink Tembiapo Mbo'ehára Sistema Ta'anga Pokarẽme g̃uarã (Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil) ha'eha peteĩ objeto ojehayhúva, admirado ha estimado, profesional ha innovador. Ko diseño ohupytýva A' Design Award Brónse ombojoaju mejor práctica arte, ciencia, diseño ha tecnología rehegua ha iporãiterei detalle rehe. Tactilelink Tembiapo Mbo'ehára Sistema Ta'anga Pokarẽme g̃uarã (Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil) ombohory necesidad, ohupyty ipotapy, ombovy'a sentimiento ha ohenói curiosidad.

Diseño Rapykuéri

Marandu Aty

Diseñador ome'ẽva'ekue crédito, aty pegua ha mba'e técnico.

Mba'e Iñambuéva: 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.
Tuichakue ha Ñemyenyhẽ: 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.
Ñe'ẽ Rape: Accessibility, Tactile graphic, Education system, Inclusive education, Blind Arduino
Ñeapopy Tecnología: 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.
Diseño Jepy'apy: 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.
Ñesẽheka: 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.
Inspiración: 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.
Proyecto Ára Tuichakue: This project started in August 2024 and finished in December 2024.
Mba'apo Rape: 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.
Aty Rembiguái: Nuoran Chen
Yilin Niu
Siming (Susie) Jin