Tactilelink Rafitra Fampianarana Sary Azo Tsapaina nataon'i Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Ny endrika Tactilelink Rafitra Fampianarana Sary Azo Tsapaina nataon'i Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin dia mpandresy sarobidy amin'ny 2026 A' Design Award Varahina amin'ny Sokajin'ny Fifanintsanana Famolavolana Fanabeazana, Fitaovana Fampianarana ary Votoaty Fanofanana.

VarahinaFanabeazana· 2026

Tactilelink Rafitra Fampianarana Sary Azo Tsapaina

nataon'i Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Mpanjifa: Nuoran Chen

Mpandresy A' Design Award Varahina amin'ny Sokajy Fanabeazana

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Ny Endrika

Momba ny Tactilelink Rafitra Fampianarana Sary Azo Tsapaina

Tactilelink dia rafitra fampianarana sary azo tsapaina natao ho an'ny mpianatra jamba sy manana fahasembanana ara-pahitana. Ny fampianarana nentim-paharazana amin'ny fitarihana ny tanana dia mametra ny fahaleovan-tenan'ny mpianatra ary miankina amin'ny mpampianatra manam-pahaizana manokana izay vitsy an'isa. Tactilelink dia mampifangaro tranon-takelaka vita amin'ny fanontana 3D, sary misy tsipika mivoaka mampiseho kisarin'ny faritra elektrika, ary rindrambaiko azo ampiasaina amin'ny sehatra samihafa. Ny fanovana feo dia mitarika ny mpianatra tsirairay mankany amin'ny singa kendrena, satria miova ny haavon'ny feo sy ny tanjany arakaraka ny halaviran'ny rantsantanana. Afaka manara-maso mpianatra maromaro miaraka ny mpampianatra ary afaka manomana fanamarihana am-peo ho an'ny famerenana mahaleo tena aorian'ny fampianarana.

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Nandresy ny A' Design Award Varahina ny famolavolana Tactilelink Rafitra Fampianarana Sary Azo Tsapaina, fankasitrahana malaza be omena ny famolavolana miavaka izay mampiavaka ny fahaiza-mamorona, ny fahazotoana ary ny fahamaotinan-tsaina. Ny mpandresy Varahina dia zavatra vita tanana mahay dia mahay ary mamorona mivantana izay manamafy ny traikefa be dia be, ny sarintsaina ary ny fahaizan-kafoy an'ny mpamolavola azy. Andrasana ho zavatra ankasitrahana be, ankafizina ary tiana, mahay amin'ny asa sady vaovao ny famolavolana Tactilelink Rafitra Fampianarana Sary Azo Tsapaina. Ity famolavolana nandresy ny A' Design Award Varahina ity dia mitahiry ny fomba fanao tsara indrindra amin'ny zavakanto, ny siansa, ny famolavolana ary ny teknolojia, ary tsara indrindra amin'ny fitandremana ny antsipirihany. Ny famolavolana Tactilelink Rafitra Fampianarana Sary Azo Tsapaina dia mahafa-po ny filana tsara, mikasika ny faniriana, mahasarika ny fihetseham-po ary misarika ny fahalianana.

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Toetra Manokana: 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.
Refy & Fonosana: 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.
Marika: Accessibility, Tactile graphic, Education system, Inclusive education, Blind Arduino
Teknolojia Famokarana: 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.
Fanamby Endrika: 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.
Fikarohana: 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.
Aingam-panahy: 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.
Faharetan'ny Tetikasa: This project started in August 2024 and finished in December 2024.
Fizotr'asa: 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.
Mpikambana ao amin'ny Ekipa: Nuoran Chen
Yilin Niu
Siming (Susie) Jin