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Conference Programme
Wednesday 19th June 2002

Thursday 20th | Friday 21st

9:30 Registration for the International Cartographic Association - Commission on Maps & Graphics for Blind & Visually Impaired People Meeting
10:00 Exhibition Setup
12:00 Conference Registration
12:30 Lunch & Exhibition Launch
13:30 Welcome Presentation from Sarah Morley
14:00 Workshops
  Ann Gardiner
Tactility, UK
You Can Do It! - Making vacuum formed maps
Sue King
Royal National Institute of the Blind, UK
More than words - the diverse world of tactile images
Boguslaw Marek
Hungry Fingers / Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Tactile graphics for young learners: simple tasks for teaching difficult visual concepts
Sarah Morley and Dave Gunn
National Centre for Tactile Diagrams, UK
An Overview of Tactile Graphics for Novices
15:30 Tea & Coffee, & Exhibition
16:00 Frances Aldrich & Yvonne Hindle
University of Sussex, UK
What Skills and Knowledge do tactile graphics users need?
16:30 Robin Nation
Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, New Zealand
Tactile Storybook Production in New Zealand
17:00 Andrew Tatham
ICA Commission on Maps and Diagrams for Blind and Visually
Impaired People. Information Resources Division, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Do not reinvent the wheel: standards in cataloguing or metadata.
17:30 Exhibition Close
19:00

Dinner - accompanied by light and varied music from 3 invited internationally acclaimed musicians:

Julian Wilkins - piano
Daniella Ganeva - vibraphone
Graham Instrall - percussion

Thursday 20th | Friday 21st

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