Tactilelink Sistèm Edikasyon Grafik Taktil pa Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Dizayn Tactilelink Sistèm Edikasyon Grafik Taktil pa Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin se yon gayan ki gen anpil estim nan konpetisyon trè prestijye 2026 A' Design Award Bwonz nan Kategori Konpetisyon Edikasyon.

BwonzEdikasyon· 2026

Tactilelink Sistèm Edikasyon Grafik Taktil

pa Nuoran Chen, Yilin Niu and Siming Jin

Kliyan: Nuoran Chen

Gayan A' Design Award Bwonz nan Kategori Edikasyon

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Gade sou A' Design Award Kominike Laprès Badj Prim

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Konsepsyon an

Konsènan Tactilelink Sistèm Edikasyon Grafik Taktil

Tactilelink se yon sistèm edikasyon grafik taktil pou elèv avèg ak elèv ki gen pwoblèm vizyon. Metòd tradisyonèl kote pwofesè a gide men elèv la limite endepandans elèv yo epi li depann de yon kantite piti pwofesè espesyalis. Tactilelink konbine yon ankadreman tablèt ki enprime an 3D, grafik ak liy leve ki reprezante dyagram sikwi, ak yon lojisyèl ki fonksyone sou plizyè platfòm. Sonifikasyon gide chak elèv nan direksyon yon konpozan sib, paske wotè ak entansite son an chanje selon distans dwèt la. Enstriktè yo ka swiv plizyè elèv an menm tan epi prepare anotasyon odyo pou revizyon endepandan apre klas la.

Rekonesans lan

Konsènan A' Design Award Bwonz

Tactilelink Sistèm Edikasyon Grafik Taktil se yon ganyan A' Design Award Bwonz, yon rekonesans ki gen anpil prestij yo bay design ekselan ki make pa kreyativite, enjenyozite ak finès. Ganyan Bwonz yo se objè ki abil anpil e ki kreyatif nan fason ki frape, ki otantifye gwo eksperyans, imajinasyon ak debouyaj designer yo. Yo atann Tactilelink Sistèm Edikasyon Grafik Taktil pou se yon objè anpil moun estime, admire e renmen, ki pwofesyonèl e inovatè nan fason remakab. Design sa a ki ganyen A' Design Award Bwonz enkòpore pi bon pratik nan atizay, syans, design ak teknoloji, e li ekselan pou atansyon li bay detay. Tactilelink Sistèm Edikasyon Grafik Taktil satisfè bezwen yon fason espledid, li touche dezi, li chame santiman e li atire kiryozite.

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Pwopriyete Inik: 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.
Dimansyon & Anbalaj: 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.
Etikèt: Accessibility, Tactile graphic, Education system, Inclusive education, Blind Arduino
Teknoloji Pwodiksyon: 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.
Defi Dizayn: 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.
Rechèch: 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.
Enspirasyon: 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.
Dire Pwojè: This project started in August 2024 and finished in December 2024.
Fliks Operasyon: 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.
Manm Ekip: Nuoran Chen
Yilin Niu
Siming (Susie) Jin