[accessibleimage] Re: Notable Entry 2005 MAPublisher Map Competition

Congratulations Lisa,

The Tactile Ink-jet Mapping Project (TIMP) was recently awarded best
Interactive Paper Display at the Digital Fabrication conference held in
Baltimore in September.

http://www.imaging.org/store/epub.cfm?abstrid=33462

A more technological paper about the underlying methodology has been
published in the Journal of Engineering Design.  I've included the abstract
below.  I can disseminate 50 copies of the PDF for free so if anyone would
like a copy could you please let me know.

Kind Regards

Don


The design and manufacture of tactile maps using an inkjet process

DON MCCALLUM?*, KAFEEL AHMED?, SANDRA JEHOEL?, SNIR DINAR?
and DEREK SHELDON?

?Anglia Ruskin University, UK
?University of Surrey, UK

The emerging technology of inkjet has been used for the manufacture of
tactile maps and diagrams for people with visual impairments. A design
methodology was proposed by which design improvements could be made to
tactile maps and the inkjet system used to produce them. The design
methodology centred on balancing the primary subsystems of printhead, ink
and substrate, via a triumvirate visual design tool. This was used in
conjunction with a design matrix for comparing system outputs and inputs. As
no rigorous standards for assessing the quality of a tactile map exist, a
set of measurable output variables was argued for based on psychophysical
and cartographic studies of haptics. These were compared with the input
variables affecting the inkjet subsystems; printheads, inks, substrates,
print algorithms, curing and motion control of a special inkjet machine. The
design methodology showed how the system and the output could be improved,
and, in particular, the concept was shown that knowledge of the haptic
design outputs could be used to aid efficiency saving of the machine inputs
without adversely affecting the output.

Keywords: Inkjet; Tactile map; Visual impairment; Haptics; Design
methodology


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Subject: [accessibleimage] Notable Entry 2005 MAPublisher Map
Competition


Hi,
I would just like to mention that  a tactile map (Tiger)  that I sent into
Avenza's 2005 MAPublisher Map Competition
 was voted as a Notable Entry in the Special Purpose Category.

http://www.avenza.com/MPcomp/2005#notables

Mapulisher is a GIS plugin for Illustrator. I find it very handy.

Best regards,
Lisa

Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx

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