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Conference Programme
Friday 21st June 2002

Wednesday 19th | Thursday 20th

9:30 Registration Tea & Coffee
10:00 Marion Ripley
ClearVision Project, UK
Introducing the Tactus Organisation
Jonathan Rowell and Simon Ungar
Anglia Polytechnic University, UK
A taxonomy for tactile symbols - creating a usable database for tactile map designers
10:30 Margaret Sheridan
Reveal, UK
Reveal : the national database of resources in accessible formats
Boguslaw Marek
Hungry Fingers / Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Managing space: developing a course in tactile graphics for young learners
11:30 Tea & Coffee, & Exhibition
12:00 Chris Perkins and Ann Gardiner
University of Manchester, UK
Real World Tactile Map Reading Strategies
Helmut Jürgensen and C. Power
University of Western Ontario and Universität Potsdam
Towards Talking Tactile Diagrams
12:30 Adrian Farnsworth & Peter Lumley
Markeaton Primary School, UK
Tactile Art as an Aid to Education and Orientation in School Grounds
John Gardner
ViewPlus Technologies Inc, United States
Tiger - the world's first 3-dimensional Windows embosser
  Lunch & Exhibition
14:00 Marilyn Oldershaw
Royal National Institute of the Blind, UK
UK Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Bill
Angela Barbour, Carlos A. Campos, Sidnei da Silva & Cristina Masagão
Fundação Memorial da América Latina, Brazil
Projeto Céu Aberto (Open Sky Project): Constructing Tactile Images as a transcriation of Latin American Art Crafts
Eva Siekierska and Richard Labelle
Mapping Services Branch, Earth Sciences Sector, Natural Resources Canada
Internet Based Tactile Mapping for the Visually Impaired in Canadian Government On Line Program
14:30 Sarah Morley, Dave Gunn and Phil Beresford
National Centre for Tactile Diagrams, UK
Developing Good Practice Guidelines
  Sarah Morley - Closing Presentation
15:30 Tea & Coffee, & Exhibition

Wednesday 19th | Thursday 20th

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