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1-2 December 2005
Birmingham, UK


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Day 2 Programme - Friday 2 December

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

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

Time to visit Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2

08:00-09:00 Exhibition and poster set-up time
09:30-10:10 A virtual map read with a haptic mouse: Effects of some tactile and audio-tactile information options -
Gunnar Jansson
Preparing braille tactile graphics for national standardized exams -
Diane Spence
Tactual comic books for children with vision impairment -
Michael Sutjiadi

Exhibition and Posters Open
09:00-16:00

Day 2 posters:
Poster 4:
Improvement in TRUCT Braille signs reading by use of polyester non-woven fabric finger cover
Kouki Doi

Poster 5:
Touch in the museum
Lara Latcham

Poster 6:
Ink-jet printing of tactile map on clay tile
Shoufeng Yang

Full list of Exhibitors

10:30-11:10 Automated production of tactile graphics -
Dan Comden

Teaching tactile graphic through user workshops -
Hoëlle Corvest
Interactive touch models for science museums and other public exhibits -
Steven Landau
11:10-11:40 Refreshments in Exhibition Room 1
Time to visit Exhibition Room 1 and 2
11:40-12:20 Computer interaction using tactile overlays -
Roger Bates
Teaching tactile graphics concepts -
Lucia Hasty
A multi-modal museum installation showing sequential events -
Rebecca Fuller
12:20-13:40

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

  Room A Room B Room C Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2
Exhibition and Posters
13:40-14:20 Practical use of the interactive tactile display system at a school for the blind -
Tetsuya Watanabe
Art and the alphabet: a tactile experience -
Rebecca McGinnis
Developing spatial understanding: experience using the tactile models and plans -
Petr Cervenka

Exhibition and Posters Open
09:00-16:00

Full list of Exhibitors

14:40-15:20 TeDUB: a new method for providing auditory and haptic access to technical diagrams for blind people -
Helen Petrie
Improving the provision of tactile books for young visually-impaired children -
Marion Ripley
Tactile diagrams and language -
Fabio Levi
15:20-15:50 Refreshments in Exhibition Room 1
Time to visit Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2
15:50-16:30 Field trial of an audio/tactile statistics curriculum for blind and visually impaired students -
Steven Landau
A subject-specific graphics resource for higher education: the development of the ‘Core Graphics Pack: Psychology’ -
Gemma Gray
Understanding three dimensional shapes by using the T’Z method -
Akiyoshi Takamaura
16:30 Main Conference Ends - Open Meetings Start
(all conference participants are welcome to attend these meetings)
16:30-17:00 Meeting A: International Cartographic Association – Commission on Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People    
17:00-18:30   Meeting B: Standards, good practice, and a future research agenda for tactile graphics and maps  

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