Tactilelink Sistem Pendhidhikan Grafis Taktil dening Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Karya Tactilelink Sistem Pendhidhikan Grafis Taktil dening Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin minangka pemenang sing diajeni banget saka A' Design Award Perunggu 2026 sing bergengsi ing Kategori Kompetisi Desain Pendhidhikan, Piranti Ajar lan Konten Pelatihan.

PerungguPendhidhikan· 2026

Tactilelink Sistem Pendhidhikan Grafis Taktil

dening Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Klien: Nuoran Chen

Pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu ing Kategori Pendhidhikan

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Verifikasi Status Penghargaan kanggo #177478

Deleng ing A' Design Award Siaran Pers Lencana Penghargaan

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Babagan Tactilelink Sistem Pendhidhikan Grafis Taktil

Tactilelink yaiku sistem pendhidhikan grafis taktil kanggo siswa wuta lan siswa kanthi gangguan penglihatan. Piwulangan tradhisional kanthi cara tangan-nuntun-tangan mbatesi kamandirian siswa lan gumantung marang cacahe guru spesialis sing langka. Tactilelink nggabungake pigura tablet cetak 3D, grafis garis timbul saka diagram sirkuit, lan piranti lunak lintas platform. Sonifikasi nuntun saben siswa menyang komponen target, amarga nada lan intensitas swara owah miturut jarak driji. Instruktur bisa ngawasi sawetara siswa bebarengan lan nyiapake anotasi audio kanggo diulang kanthi mandhiri sawise kelas.

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Babagan A' Design Award Perunggu

Tactilelink Sistem Pendhidhikan Grafis Taktil menang A' Design Award Perunggu, pangenalan sing prestisius banget sing diparingake marang desain sing luar biasa sing dicirikake dening kreativitas, kapinteran lan kaweruh sing landhep. Pemenang Perunggu iku artefak sing trampil banget lan kreatif banget sing mbuktekake pengalaman sing jembar, imajinasi lan kapinteran para desainer. Tactilelink Sistem Pendhidhikan Grafis Taktil dikarepake dadi barang sing dihargai banget, dikagumi lan ditresnani, profesional lan inovatif banget. Desain sing menang A' Design Award Perunggu iki ngemot praktik sing paling apik ing seni, sains, desain lan teknologi, lan apik banget ing perhatiane marang rincian. Tactilelink Sistem Pendhidhikan Grafis Taktil nyukupi kabutuhan kanthi apik, nutul kekarepan, ngaya rasa lan narik rasa pengin weruh.

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Sifat Unik: 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.
Ukuran & 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