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An assessment of the effectiveness of tactile presentations as substitutes for pictures

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posted on 2018-02-15, 16:14 authored by Ronald A.L. Hinton
The vital role played by pictures and diagrams in modern communication is stated with the need for adequate substitutes so that visually impaired people can take full advantage of educational and career opportunities. The multiplicity of purposes to which pictures and diagrams can be put and the diversity of styles which result are discussed. Available methods for producing tactile versions of these (some devised and improved by the author) are described and provisionally evaluated. [Continues.]

Funding

Economic and Social Research Council

Royal National Institute for the Blind

Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

Leverhulme Trust

History

School

  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • Communication and Media

Publisher

Loughborough University of Technology

Rights holder

© R.A.L. Hinton and the assignees

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

Publication date

1991

Notes

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University of Technology. Appendix C (publications by the author and a collection of tactile diagrams) in hard copy is kept at the University Library, Loughborough University.

Language

  • en

Qualification name

  • PhD

Qualification level

  • Doctoral