CHI '181st AuthorVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille) +1
Taking into account Sensory Knowledge: the case of Geo-techologies for children with visual impairments
This paper argues for designing geo-technologies supporting non-visual sensory knowledge. Sensory knowledge refers to the implicit and explicit knowledge guiding our uses of our senses to understand the world. To support our argument, we build on an 18 months field-study on geography classes for primary school childre…