Tactilelink Sistem Edukasi Grafis Taktil oleh Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Karya Tactilelink Sistem Edukasi Grafis Taktil oleh Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin adalah pemenang yang sangat dihormati dari 2026 A' Design Award Perunggu yang sangat bergengsi dalam Kategori Kompetisi Desain Pendidikan, Alat Bantu Mengajar dan Konten Pelatihan.

PerungguPendidikan· 2026

Tactilelink Sistem Edukasi Grafis Taktil

oleh Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Klien: Nuoran Chen

Pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu dalam Kategori Pendidikan

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Tentang Tactilelink Sistem Edukasi Grafis Taktil

Tactilelink adalah sistem edukasi grafis taktil untuk siswa tunanetra dan siswa dengan gangguan penglihatan. Metode pengajaran konvensional dari tangan ke tangan membatasi kemandirian siswa dan bergantung pada jumlah guru spesialis yang sangat terbatas. Tactilelink menggabungkan rangka tablet hasil cetak 3D, grafis garis timbul berupa diagram rangkaian listrik, dan perangkat lunak lintas platform. Sonifikasi memandu setiap siswa menuju komponen sasaran, karena nada dan intensitas suara berubah seiring jarak jari. Pengajar dapat memantau beberapa siswa sekaligus dan menyiapkan anotasi audio untuk ditinjau secara mandiri setelah kelas berakhir.

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Tentang A' Design Award Perunggu

Tactilelink Sistem Edukasi Grafis Taktil adalah pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu, pengakuan yang sangat bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain luar biasa yang dicirikan oleh kreativitas, kecerdikan, dan ketajaman. Pemenang Perunggu adalah artefak yang sangat terampil dan sangat kreatif yang membuktikan pengalaman luas, imajinasi, dan kelihaian para desainernya. Tactilelink Sistem Edukasi Grafis Taktil diharapkan menjadi objek yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi, dan dicintai, sangat profesional dan inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu ini menyertakan praktik terbaik dalam seni, sains, desain, dan teknologi, dan sangat baik dalam perhatiannya pada detail. Tactilelink Sistem Edukasi Grafis Taktil memuaskan kebutuhan dengan indah, menyentuh keinginan, memikat perasaan, dan menarik rasa ingin tahu.

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Keunikan: 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.
Dimensi & Kemasan: 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.
Tag: Accessibility, Tactile graphic, Education system, Inclusive education, Blind Arduino
Teknologi Produksi: 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.
Tantangan Desain: 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.
Riset: 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.
Inspirasi: 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.
Durasi Proyek: This project started in August 2024 and finished in December 2024.
Alur Operasi: 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.
Anggota Tim: Nuoran Chen
Yilin Niu
Siming (Susie) Jin