[vip_students] FW: Webinar Wednesday: Braille Innovations

From: "Dominique Farrell" <dominiqueafarrell@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'News and issues relating to the visually impaired in Ireland'" <irelandvipnews@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:30:17 -0000

From: Stuart Lawler <stuart.lawler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 11 November 2020 8:15 am
To: Stuart Lawler <stuart.lawler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Webinar Wednesday: Braille Innovations

Hello,

Time to tell you about Sight and Sound Technology’s next Webinar Wednesday
session, taking place on November 18th, at 2:00 pm.

For blind people around the world, Braille is integral to our lives. We use it
numerous times every day, to do all sorts of things, and there’s no doubt that
it has been instrumental in linking education to better career prospects.

At Sight and Sound Technology, we’re passionate not only about how Braille is
used right now, and the technology that works alongside it, but to look at how
Braille is evolving, and what might be possible in the future.

On this special Webinar Wednesday session, we’re talking about Braille
Innovations and also about how you can find support to know more about Braille
and its many codes in the UK and Ireland.

Our guests for this session are Dr. Sile O’Modhrain, from the University of
Michigan, Dr. Donal Fitzpatrick, from Dublin City University, and Mr. Dave
Williams, Chair of the Braillists Foundation.

Sile O'Modhrain is an associate professor at the University of Michigan where
she holds a joint appointment in the Performing Arts Technology (PAT) program
in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, and in the school of information.
Her research focuses on human-computer interaction, especially interfaces
incorporating haptic and auditory feedback. For the past eight years, she has
been working with Brent Gillespie and Alex Russamanno to design and build a
full-page tactile array to support the display of braille and tactile graphics.

Sile’s presentation will focus on designing a Full-Page Tactile Display: What
we Know and What We Don’t Know Yet.

Though no such devices have reached the market, there are a number of
manufacturers who are getting close to releasing products.  It is safe to say
that in the next five years there will be at least one product released.
However, we are only now beginning to think about what interacting with content
on these displays might involve.   In this presentation she will discuss this
journey.

Donal Fitzpatrick is a lecturer in the School of Computing Dublin City
University. His research interests focus on accessible user interfaces for
persons with disabilities.  His recent work has been in the area of access to
mathematics using Unified English Braille. Donal is a life-long Braille reader
and he uses it for both work and pleasure.

Donal’s presentation will focus on Braille in his work and personal life,
Braille research initiatives including Euromath and Braille Translation and
will also discuss the importance of Braille in education.

Dave Williams is chair of the Braillists Foundation, a grass-roots community
group connecting Braille readers with Braille technology developers and funders.

The Braillists Foundation believe Braille has the potential to transform the
life of any blind person who has the opportunity to learn it.

The Braillists work to Promote the value of Braille as a proven literacy tool
that enriches the lives of blind people, support efforts to make affordable
Braille and tactile reading technologies available to all blind people
irrespective of education and employment status and to provide an open forum
for the exchange of ideas about the development of future Braille technology.

Dave’s presentation will discuss the work of the Braillists Foundation and
their many initiatives including their collaboration with Bristol Braille
Technology, their community meetings, forum, podcasts, training and equipment
distribution.

Please register for this session at the link below.

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f4y27czhQyazYGL85ioQuQ

Regards,

Stuart

Stuart Lawler

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