Tactilelink Sistèma d'Educacion Grafica Tactila per Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Lo dissènh Tactilelink Sistèma d'Educacion Grafica Tactila per Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin es un laureat autfo estimfo del prestigfo 2026 A' Design Award de Bronze dins la Categoria de Competfo Educacion.

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Tactilelink Sistèma d'Educacion Grafica Tactila

per Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Client : Nuoran Chen

Laureat del A' Design Award de Bronze dins la Categoria Educacion

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Lo Concèpte

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Tactilelink es un sistèma d'educacion grafica tactila per d'estudiants avugles e amb deficiéncia visuala. L'instruccion tradicionala man sus man limita l'independéncia de l'estudiant e depend d'un nombre escàs d'ensenhaires especializats. Tactilelink combina un quadre de tauleta imprimit en 3D, de grafics de linhas en relèu de diagramas de circuits e un logicial multiplataforma. La sonificacion guida cada estudiant cap a un component cibla, del temps que lo ton e l'intensitat del son càmbian segon la distància del det. Los instructors pòdon seguir mantuns estudiants a l'encòp e preparar d'anotacions àudio per una revision independenta aprèp la classa.

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A prepaus del A' Design Award de Bronze

Tactilelink Sistèma d'Educacion Grafica Tactila a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Bronze, una reconeissença plan prestigiosa acordada a de designs excellents que se destrian per la creativitat, l'engenh e la finessa. Los ganhaires del Bronze son d'artefactes largament abils e sorprenentament creatius que provan la vasta experiéncia, l'imaginacion e l'engenhositat de lors designers. S'espèra que Tactilelink Sistèma d'Educacion Grafica Tactila siá un objècte fòrça considerat, admirat e estimat, notablament professional e innovant. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Bronze integra las melhoras practicas de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia e es excellent per son atencion al detalh. Tactilelink Sistèma d'Educacion Grafica Tactila satisfa esplendidament los besonhs, toca los desirs, encanta los sentiments e interèssa la curiositat.

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Proprietats Unicas: 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.
Dimensions e Embalatge: 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
Tecnologia de Produccion: 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.
Desaffo de Dissènh: 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.
Recèrca: 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.
Inspiracion: 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.
Durada del Projècte: This project started in August 2024 and finished in December 2024.
Flux Operacional: 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.
Membres de l'Equipa: Nuoran Chen
Yilin Niu
Siming (Susie) Jin