Creativity is an important 21st Century skill that enhances students' ability to see new
opportunities, confront new challenges, and adapt flexibly to the changing study, work and …

Designers create sketches, diagrams, and other visual media to both externalize a specific
design concept as well as to explore design spaces. The largely visual and spatial nature of …

Few accessible methods to support brainstorming sessions for blind and visually impaired
users exist. We present an approach consisting of a smartphone application and tangible …

In co-located meetings, which are part of our professional and educational lives, information
exchange relies not only on information exchange using artifacts like bubbles in mind-maps …

Tabletop systems and their interaction capabilities are typically a domain for sighted people
only. While the content on the tabletop can already be made accessible to blind people, the …

The lack of tactile feedback is the main barrier that prevents access to 2D maps for visually
impaired people. Artisanal techniques are used to produce tactile maps that can be explored …

Hand gestures play an important role in communication between humans, and increasingly
in the inter-action between humans and computers, where users can interact with a …

Body posture is one of many visual cues used by sighted persons to determine if someone
would be open to initiate a conversation. These cues are inaccessible for individuals with …

This paper presents a brainstorming tool combined with pointing gestures to improve the
brainstorming meeting experience for blind and visually impaired people (BVIP). In …

This paper presents a brainstorming tool combined with pointing gestures to improve the
brainstorming meeting experience for blind and visually impaired people (BVIP). In …