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1-2 December 2005
Birmingham, UK


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Day 1 Programme - Thursday 1 December 2005

All presentations are shown by title and main presenter, with a link to the abstract of the presentation.

08:30-11:00 Conference registration at Jurys Inn - in lobby near check-in desk. For all delegates, presenters and exhibitors. After this at conference desk in Exhibition Room 1.
  Room A Room B Room C Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2:
Exhibition and Posters
09:30-11:00

Welcome: Eamonn Fetton - RNIB Director of Direct Services Group.
Towards a world of accessible images -
Sarah Morley Wilkins
Voice of an end-user -
Claire Wilson

08:00-11:00 Exhibition and poster set-up time
11:00-11:30 Refreshments in Exhibition Room 1
Time to visit Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2

Exhibition and Posters Open
11:00-18:30

Day 1 posters:
Poster 1:
Making tactile graphics for exam materials
- Yoshiko Toriyama

Poster 2:
Towards cartographic ‘tactualization’: the TIMP approach -
Simon Ungar

Poster 3:
A new approach for tactile graphical displays based on shape memory alloy microactuators -
Bernhard Winzek

Full list of Exhibitors

11:30-12:10 Tactile maps: exploiting existing spatial data for tactile map production -
Roman Rener
Tactile graphics: the challenge of low-tech -
Richard Tucker
The GRASP Project, Phase III : Exploring tactile graphics comprehension and format for the development of standards and design guidelines -
Aquinas Pather
12:30-13:10 Talking tactile diagrams - in colour -
Rebecka Boman
Japanese action - standardization of display method for tactile guide maps for buildings, stations and other public facilities - Hiroshi Fujimoto Designing tactile interpretations with access for all -
Loz Simpson
13:10-14:30

Lunch in Restaurant on Ground Floor
Time to visit Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2

  Room A Room B Room C Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2:
Exhibition and Posters
14:30-15:10 Producing the book: Touch the Sun -
Steven Landau
Touching stories: tactile activity books for young learners with a visual impairment -
Boguslaw Marek
The guiding line: developing tactile map design principles -
Jonathan Rowell

Exhibition and Posters Open
11:00-18:30

Full list of Exhibitors

15:30-16:10   The use of tactile graphics to support early literacy -
Peter Lumley
Developing a set of discriminable tactile symbols -
Sandra Jehoel
16:10-16:50 Refreshments in Exhibition Room 1
Time to visit Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2
16:50-17:30 Using the T3 system* in the British education context -
Lesley Wells
Storybook with tactile illustrations to improve haptic perception and spatial orientation, to initiate visually impaired children in Braille -
Ximena Rossello
Steps towards automating the process of tactile map design -
Snir Dinar
17:30-18:30 Time to visit Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2
18:30 Evening Drinks Reception in Rooms A, B, C for all conference participants  

Day 2 Programme

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