Tactile Graphics
Conference

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Conference Programme
Thursday 20th June 2002

9:30	Registration, Tea & Coffee
10:00	Workshops
	Frances Aldrich & Yvonne Hindle University of Sussex, UK Developing a model of tactile graphics comprehension	Carolyn and John Gardner ViewPlus Technologies Inc, United States Making Tactile Graphics with the Tiger Tactile Graphics and Braille Embosser	Fabio Levi University of Turin / Tactile Vision, Italy "Discover your body": practical demonstration how to use a tactile book (workshop)	Marion Ripley and Robin Nation ClearVision Project, UK; Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, New Zealand Making Tactile Books for Young VI Children
11:30	Tea & Coffee, & Exhibition

12:00	Don McCallum Anglia Polytechnic University, UK Tactile Diagrams manufactured using Digital Process	Angus Ramsay University College London, UK Perceive, understand, apply interactions with tactile diagrams	Lisa Yayla Huseby Resource Centre, Norway International database of tactile graphics
12:30	Edward Anczurowski Tactile Vision Inc. Canada Tactile Vision Raised Printing Technique	Fabio Levi University of Turin / Tactile Vision, Italy Conceiving and Producing Illustrated Books for Young Students	Jonathan Rowell and Simon Ungar Anglia Polytechnic University, UK The World of Touch: an international survey of tactile maps and symbols
12:50	Lunch & Exhibition

14:00

Gunnar Jansson
University of Uppsala, Sweden
Exploratory procedures for tactile map: Number of fingers involved

Yvonne Eriksson
The Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille/Department of Art History and Visual Studies, Göteborg University
Reading aloud - the road to braille and tactile literacy

15:00	Rebecca Fuller RAF Models & Displays, United States RAF Models and Displays	Ann Gardiner Tactility, UK "Here is the Beech tree!" Understanding tactile maps in the field	Don Parkes Tactile Audio Graphics - TGD, Australia Tactile Audio Graphics - 1987-2002
15:30	Philip Eccles Zychem Ltd The Technology Behind Swell Paper	Roman Rener Geodetic Institute of Slovenia, Slovenia Automated production of tactile maps - using digital 3D data sources	Dave Pardy Topographic Maps to support Courses for Visually Impaired Students

15:50	Tea & Coffee, & Exhibition
16:30	Susanna Millar University of Oxford, UK Getting and remembering spatial information from touch	Rebecca McGinnis The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States Tactile pictures in art and museum education