Tactilelink Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil de Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

O deseño Tactilelink Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil de Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin é un estimado gañador do moi prestixioso 2026 A' Design Award de Bronce na Categoría de Competición Deseño de Educación, Material Didáctico e Contido Formativo.

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Tactilelink Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil

de Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Cliente: Nuoran Chen

Gañador do A' Design Award de Bronce na Categoría Educación

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O Deseño

Sobre Tactilelink Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil

Tactilelink é un sistema de educación gráfica táctil para estudantes cegos e con discapacidade visual. A instrución tradicional man sobre man limita a independencia do estudante e depende dun número escaso de profesores especialistas. Tactilelink combina un marco de tableta impreso en 3D, gráficos de liñas en relevo de diagramas de circuítos e software multiplataforma. A sonificación guía cada estudante cara a un compoñente obxectivo, xa que o ton e a intensidade do son cambian coa distancia do dedo. Os instrutores poden seguir varios estudantes á vez e preparar anotacións de audio para a revisión independente despois da clase.

O Recoñecemento

Sobre o A' Design Award de Bronce

Tactilelink Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil gañou o A' Design Award de Bronce, un recoñecemento altamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños sobresaíntes que se distinguen pola creatividade, o enxeño e a sagacidade. Os gañadores Bronce son artefactos amplamente hábiles e sorprendentemente creativos que autentican a vasta experiencia, imaxinación e enxeño dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Tactilelink Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil sexa un obxecto moi apreciado, admirado e querido, notablemente profesional e innovador. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Bronce incorpora as mellores prácticas da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía, e é excelente pola súa atención ao detalle. Tactilelink Sistema de Educación Gráfica Táctil satisfai espléndidamente as necesidades, toca os desexos, encanta os sentimentos e atrae a curiosidade.

Detrás do deseño

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Créditos, membros do equipo e detalles técnicos proporcionados polo deseñador.

Propiedades Únicas: Tactilelink is an affordable tactile graphic education system for blind and visually impaired students. Traditional hand-over-hand instruction limits students' independence and strains an already scarce specialist workforce. SoundPath lets a single instructor guide multiple students at once through sonification and voiceover annotations, making tactile graphic learning accessible, scalable, and independent.
Dimensións e Embalaxe: The physical components include a 3D-printed tablet frame (290 × 226 × 7 mm) and several tactile graphics of Arduino diagrams (279.4 × 215.9 mm). The digital component is cross-platform software that works as both a tablet app and a desktop web app, creating a flexible teaching system.
Etiquetas: Accessibility, Tactile graphic, Education system, Inclusive education, Blind Arduino
Tecnoloxía de Produción: Tactilelink is built with simplicity, affordability, and accessibility in mind. For student’s system, it combines 3D-printed tablet frames with software optimized for common educational tablets, ensuring easy setup and scalability. It uses sonification to guide students in exploring and learning raised-line graphics. For instructor’s system, it’s an one-step, AI empowered software help they instruct multiple students easily, reducing their workload, expanding the educational capacity to more underserved blind students.
Reto de Deseño: The hardest part was shifting from designer to facilitator. Co-design challenged us to suspend our assumptions, especially as sighted designers. We wrongly assumed blind users would prefer vibration cues over sound. In reality, sonification was less fatiguing and more effective. This required overcoming internal bias, embracing user knowledge, and adapting to insights often overlooked due to our own perspective.
Investigación: This research is user-centered design. Our goal was to create an affordable system for teaching tactile graphics to visually impaired students. We observed Blind Arduino sessions and collaborated with the East Bay Center for the Blind, then used co-design workshops, Wizard of Oz prototyping, and usability testing with teachers and students. Results showed sonification on existing hardware best supported group learning, offering insights that impact education, accessibility, and inclusive design.
Inspiración: The idea came from observing an Arduino class at the East Bay Center for the Blind, where one instructor had to physically guide each student's hands through circuit diagrams one by one. With nearly 5,000 specialist teachers short across the U.S., this one-on-one model is unsustainable. Inspired by sonification, we use continuous pitch changes to guide students to target components independently, enabling one teacher to instruct multiple students simultaneously, in person or remotely.
Duración do Proxecto: This project started in August 2024 and finished in December 2024.
Fluxo de Operacións: During class, the instructor taps a selected component on the tactile graphic for students to explore. Students navigate to the component following sonification guidance: the pitch and intensity of the sound shift based on how close their finger is to the target. Teacher can observes their progress on their interface to provide real-time support. After class, teachers could use the software to create detailed audio annotation and design the component-learning sequence, publishing it to student’s device. Students could review the knowledge independently without teacher’s presence by following the sonification guidance.
Membros do Equipo: Nuoran Chen
Yilin Niu
Siming (Susie) Jin