[accessibleimage] Re: Publications Don Parkes

Very kind of you to post this on your list. I hope it is helpful.
Don

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> Hi,
> Dr. Don Parkes has sent me a list of his
> publications. Sending it along to the list.
> It is a wonderful tool for research and study.
> So to you all Enjoy! And thank you Don for
> sending it.
> Regards,
> Lisa
> link address D.Parkes publications
> www.tactileaudio.com/publications.htm
>
> May 8 2004
>
> Publications and media references (to be completed)
>
> We are frequently asked about publications and references to
> NOMAD and TGD, typically from students undertaking
> assignments and research programs.
> TGD products have been shown at CSUN Los Angeles, every year
> since 1996, at Sight Village, Birmingham, England most years
> since the first Exhibition
> around 1994 (?). They have been shown at Workshops at NFB
> (National Federation of the Blind USA), RNIB (UK), Japan
> Braille Library, Malaysian Association
> for the Blind, Singapore Association for the Blind, and a
> number of European agencies including Bartimeus in Holland,
> AVH in France, Tomteboda in Sweden,
> ONCE in Spain and in Australia and New Zealand over the past
> 15 years.
>
> Publications and references below are in date order. More
> recently with fast advances in technology, items that were
> of interest in the media and at
> Conferences a decade or more ago are not exactly news worthy
> any more! The Internet of course also carries much of that
> news.
>
> Every effort will be made to provide interested parties with
> copies of these references but they are NOT available at
> this time in electronic format.
>
> 1988 Audio-Tactile Mapping for the Visually Handicapped,
> Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association of
> Educators of the Visually
> Handicapped, Ormond College, University of Melbourne,
> January 18-22 This pre-production report on the system at
> that time called ATMAPSIT (Audio Tactile
> Mapping and Spatial Information Tool) to be called NOMAD
> when launched in 1989 describes the proposed system,
> .."within the board there will be a grid of
> touch sensitive 'wires' and a microprocessor. Onto this
> board maps, plans and diagrams will be registered. Where
> compass direction is important, this will be
> accommodated ... it will be a stand alone device, not
> requiring to be interfaced to any other equipment ,,,input
> and output of ..voice ... other audible signals ..
> ATMAPSIT will enable a visually handicapped user to have a
> dialogue with a tactile map ...." This should be compared
> with recent claims by a US manufacturer
> in a publication on the Internet and claimed 'elsewhere' as
> a basis for positive evaluation of a substantial novel
> invention.
>
> 1988 Parkes, D.N, "Nomad": an audio-tactile tool for
> acquisition, use and management of spatially distributed
> information by visually impaired people.
> Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Maps
> and Graphics for Visually Handicapped People, International
> Cartographic
> Association, King's College, University of London, April
> 20-22 Eds. Dr.A.F.Tatham and Dr. A.G.Dodds, pp. 24-29.
>
> 1988 "Seeing is hearing", Research review in Mind: The
> Magazine of Human Behaviour (pp. not available)
>
> 1988 "New Worlds set to open up for blind people" University
> News Report, University of Newcastle NSW Australia,
> Quotation from Professor
> R.G.Golledge, University of California at Santa Barbara,
> "It's incredibly easy for a blind person to use and has
> great potential as an information and
> teaching system". Professor Golledge had spent 5 months as a
> Visiting Fellow attached to the Institute of Behavioural
> Sciences in 1986 and returned in 1989
> as part of a US National Science Foundation grant.
>
> 1989 Parkes, D.N A Tactile audio tool for extending the
> spatial reach of blind people. 5th International Mobility
> Conference : auspices World Blind Union,
> Veldhoven, Holland January 23-29
>
> 1989 Parkes,D.N and Dear R.J. A New Approach to Graphics
> Processing for the Blind. "Can graphics be useful,
> interesting, amusing, educative to those who
> are blind and to those who are partially sighted?" We think
> so. Australian and New Zealand Association of Educators of
> the Visually Handicapped,
> Newsletter Volume 24 N0.2 pp.7-8. "The tactile graphic as
> used in maps, floor plans and educational diagrams is a very
> important, but severely limited tool
> because of the need to place text onto the tactile surface
> with NOMAD ...... the only limitation to the variety of
> graphics that can be handled will be the user's
> imagination .... with this facility of sound painting it is
> possible to paint a sound into any shape ...."
>
> 1989 "Talking pictures go international" University News
> Report No. 10 May, University of Newcastle NSW Australia.
>
> 1989 September Official launch of Nomad system in Parliament
> House, Canberra, Australia by Minister for Science and
> Technology, Rt. Hon. Barry Jones.
>
> 1989 Parkes, D.N and Dear R.J Nomad: Tactile-Audio Graphics
> for Visually Impaired Children, Australasian Seminar Series,
> Technology Serving Children
> with Disabilities, Westmead Hospital Conference Centre,
> Sydney NSW September : Technical Aid to the Disabled
>
> 1990 Kuns, J, HumanWare Evaluates the Nomad - "A teacher can
> easily program the Nomad to correspond to any graphic.
> Orientation and Mobility
> instructors can create graphics of streets, buildings,
> campuses, etc. and [for] blind users to explore the
> relationships between various locations in a new
> environment. Angles and spatial concepts that are often
> difficult to understand can be rapidly taught (or often
> self-taught) ... potential for individualization and
> independent instruction is fantastic. The idea of turning
> learning into tactile games is now possible by using Nomad.
> An exciting new product ... it's
> HumanWare" HumanWare Feb/Mar Vol 2,1
>
> 1990 Parkes, D.N, Graphics for Blind Children: An
> Interactive System called Nomad. Australian and New Zealand
> Association of Educators of the
> Visually Handicapped, Homai College, Auckland New Zealand,
> January 6-12
>
> 1991 Parkes, D.N and Dear,R.J, Making and Using High
> Resolution Audio-Tactile Orientation and Mobility Plans and
> Maps with the Nomad System, VI
> Confrencia Internacional de Movilidad, O.N.C.E Madrid, Spain
> September 9-12. "High resolution tactile graphics may be
> prepared in many ways .. of the
> 40 options available to the user (aged from 6 or 7 upwards)
> all are selected by touching and listening .... among the 16
> menu items ... for reading graphs, note
> writing on a simple wordprocessor ... paint in sound ... it
> amounts to painting a sound frequency onto a line."
>
> 1991 Parkes, D.N and Dear R.J, Enabling Access to Graphics
> and Text based Information for Blind, Visually Impaired and
> Other Disability
> Groups.Proceedings Vol 5 First World Congress on Information
> Technology, Computerization and Electronics in the Workplace
> for People with
> Disabilities. Washington D.C. December 1 - 5. This paper was
> prepared while Parkes was a Senior Research Fellow at King's
> College, University of London,
> 1991 and includes an image of Nomad and a London Underground
> Transport audio tactile map.
>
> 1991 IBM Quarterly Spring, pp14-16. "How Professor Don
> Parkes and computer specialist Richard Dear got together to
> develop NOMAD". Quotation from
> article: "Exported by Quantum Technology has won world-wide
> recognition, including the USA. Here is how Technology
> Update, (April) the American
> bi-monthly consumer's guide to technology for blind and
> visually impaired persons, opened a recent article on NOMAD:
> "Imagine exploring a tactile map of the
> world and hearing it announce the name of the country your
> finger touches. Imagine looking at a raised line city map
> and hearing it announce the number of
> miles or kilometres between two landmarks. You are looking
> for the retina on a tactile, anatomical drawing of the human
> eye. As you explore with your fingers,
> the drawing is directing you to move up or down, to the
> right or left".
>
> 1991 "Using Nomad" in Precinct 11 10 June, University of
> Liverpool, England. "This is a marvelous aid for a blind
> student on a course which involves being
> familiar with graphs and charts, but it will have many other
> general uses as a means for improving access for the blind".
> The article also shows a picture of an
> Economics student at the University of Liverpool, using
> NOMAD. This report should be considered in the light of
> subjective and inaccurate statements by a
> recently established US company and published on the
> Internet.
>
> 1991 Rolls Royce, Bristol England a blind engineer uses
> NOMAD
>
> 1992 Scanlon, L. Computers will make graphics accessible to
> visually impaired , The Courier-Journal, Saturday October
> 10. "With the map of the United
> States, for example, a young person might need only the
> states' names. But an adult could get more sophisticated
> information about individual cities or the
> industries of an area .."
>
> 1992 Pennisis, E. Talking Maps: Technologies to give the
> visually impaired a sense of place, Science News Vol. 142
> N0.23, pp392-393 "Its unique and its
> very user -programmable,comments Schrier" Shrier was senior
> technology evaluator at the American Foundation for the
> Blind, New York and wrote a Review
> of Nomad in the AFB Journal. "Repeated touches on the same
> spot elicit ever more detailed geographic messages, says
> Tatham ... thus the electronic map
> sidesteps the limitations of Braille and may even exceed
> regular maps in the amount of information squeezed into a
> unit of space ...". Tatham was "The
> Keeper" of maps at the Royal Geographic Society in London
> and Chair of the International Cartographic Association
> Commission on Tactual and Bold Print
> Mapping and Chief cartographer at King's College, University
> of London.
>
> 1992 Tatham, A. How to make Tactile Diagrams, The World
> Blind No. 9 with aid from O.N.C.E, Madrid "At Maryland
> University (Wiedel) and at Baruch
> College, New York (Luxton) work is being undertaken to
> enable the computer-controlled preparation of thermoform
> masters ... One of the most exciting
> developments of recent years has been the audio-tactile
> system NOMAD invented at Newcastle University ... by Prof.
> Don Parkes (see fig. 5) ..."
>
> 1993 McMullen, M, Japanese look at touch-pad map, The
> Newcastle Herald : The Nation p.7 "Dr. Masaki Tauchi from
> the National Rehabilitation Centre for
> the Disabled, in Japan... The electronic maps sidestep the
> limitations of Braille lettering ... already being marketed
> in 15 countries and their plans for a more
> portable version." The more portable version referred to,
> took the form of AudioPIX in 1995.
>
> 1993 Nomad Invasion - the First Wave Has Arrived, The APH
> Slate American printing House for the Blind."Nomad is
> contagious. I haven't seen anyone
> who has walked up to it and not fallen in love with it."
>
> 1993 Australia's World Class Achievers - Nomad - world's
> first computer-based graphics system for the visually
> impaired. Telecom Australia Telephone
> Directory: front cover for Area Code 049 NSW. " Nomad
> consists of a computer-connected touch sensitive pad with a
> built-in speech capability. Raised line
> drawings are placed on this "talking" surface. Spoken
> descriptions, geometric calculations, graph reading,
> learning shapes and spatial listening are some of the
> innovative features of the system. Nomad has been
> commercially developed by Quantum Technology in Sydney. The
> system works with 7 languages including
> Japanese and is used in homes, schools, universities and
> other facilities across 14 countries. Among them the
> Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco. In
> London the Underground Transport System Authority is
> supporting development of Nomad maps at the Royal
> geographical Society. The Government, hotel and
> real estate sectors in the USA have also shown a keen
> interest in Nomad which is already being used by sightless
> sailors on oceangoing yachts in Europe."
>
> 1993 Parkes, D.N Extending the Reach of a Blind Individual:
> The NOMAD information system. A paper prepared for a
> workshop at Texas Tech
> University, April 13 1993. A copy of this paper is held but
> I cannot for the life of me remember presenting it, sorry!
>
> 1993 "NOMAD: des images pour non-voyants", 14 May from
> Austrade Office in Paris. Also from the Business Exporter
> 1993, "An Australian designed and
> manufactured hi-tech aid for the blind has been awarded the
> prestigious GRAND PRIZE for ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY at
> Autonomic in Paris, a major
> European Exhibition of products and services for the
> handicapped .... purchased 500 units ...and further sales
> under way in Japan, Holland, Germany, Sweden
> and France."
>
> 1993 National City to Assist Blind Bank Customers via
> Talking Computer, Wall Street Journal New York, 30 April
> "National City Corp. and the American
> Printing House for the Blind .. said its Kentucky unit is
> the first company to offer the system, which is called,
> NOMAD... has a touch sensitive pad ... the
> system, manufactured by the non profit organization American
> Printing House for the Blind ..."
>
> 1993 Audio Tactile Teaching System for Visually Impaired
> Tomorrow's World: The Australian Initiative with Foreword by
> Rt. Hon. Paul Keating, Prime
> Minister of Australia p.57 "A unique teaching system offers
> an exciting interactive means of imparting information
> ..integrated speech and multi-media sound
> capability... Firstly a graphic .. is recorded into the
> computer ... a tactile version ... made of puff ink or any
> suitable medium is then placed on the pad ..user
> interacts with NOMAD by touching points on the graphic to
> request, or be offered, audible information ..."
>
> 1994 Parkes, D.N, Multi-media Audio-Tactile Maps and Plans:
> a sound space for blind users with the 'Touchblaster' Nomad
> system : Paper to International
> Tactual Mapping Commission Symposium, University of Sao
> Paulo, Brazil, February 20-26
>
> 1994 Parkes, D.N Audio Tactile Systems for Designing and
> learning Complex Environments as a Vision Impaired Person:
> Static and Dynamic Spatial
> Information Access. Conference on Learning Environment
> Technology, Australia 1994 (LETA 94) Adelaide 25-28 Sept.
>
> 1995 Parkes, D.N Access to Complex Environments for Blind
> People:Multi-Media Maps, Plans and Virtual Travel. 17th
> International Conference
> Proceedings, International Cartographic Association, Vol 2,
> Barcelona, Spain pp. 2449-2460 . "The audio-tactile spatial
> information access system is
> designed as a self-contained system that could be situated
> in a public place allowing blind users (and others) to
> obtain detailed information about their
> immediate environment. Typically this system would be used
> to provide detailed information about a building .... the
> Topsign symbol has .... one purpose. The
> purpose is to identify the correct positioning of the
> graphic. Braille is no help here if one cannot read Braillle
> .... there are essentially three sound types that can
> be placed onto a graphic: synthesized speech in a range of
> languages, nine computer generated frequencies for
> 'painting' onto lines and into areas:
> digitized sound including speech in any language.... the
> system is multi-media... a tactile electronic atlas of Latin
> America .. initiative of Dr,D.R.F.Taylor
> Carleton University Canada and Dr. Regina Vasconcellos,
> University of Sao Paulo Brazil.... AudioCAD has been
> designed to enable blind and sighted people to
> prepare maps and plans, designs and other graphics that can
> be embossed and printed ... enabling blind people to express
> their visual mental activities (as
> Nemeth has described them)...."
>
> 1996 Brull, M Los Ciegos pueden dibujar desde la
> computadora. El Cisne, Buenos Aires "... AudioPIX y el
> AudioCAD, producto que permite a las personas
> ciegas producir imágenes visuales o tàctiles, interactuando
> efectivamente con la computadora ..." Brull was responsible
> for the translation of TGD TGD QikTac,
> AudioPIX and AudioCAD command sets and manuals to Spanish
> and for the organization of workshops in Buenos Aires
> supported by the Department of
> Education.
>
> 1996 Parkes, D.N, BP World Atlas AudioTactile Graphics
> Reading System, Published and distributed by Repro-Tronics
> Inc. NJ. on Flexi-paper.
> Descriptive comment : "A tactile (Braille button)
> interactive contents page enables the user to be told, in
> synthetic or digital speech about text windows
> (articles about the place of interest), lower levels (more
> detailed demographic, social and recreational information
> about a place), mini graphic (a small index
> image of the larger graphic). See also the NOMAD system
> application to an atlas of Latin America developed in 1995
> with funding from the Pan American
> Institute for History and Geography and visit Carleton
> University Canada site for more details on their
> considerable contribution to mapping, Department of
> Geomatics and Geography" see 1999 .
>
> 1997 Brull, M and Parkes, D.N It may not be easy, but it is
> possible: A new form of literacy. The World Blind, Journal
> of the World Blind Union, Vol 14 pp. 48-50
>
> 1998 Parkes, D.N Tactile Audio Tools for Graphicacy and
> Mobility: "A Circle is either a Circle or it is not a
> Circle". British Journal of Visual Impairment,
> Vol. 16. No. 3 pp 99-104 "TAGW [a product name that preceded
> the new version of TGD Workshop 2004] A tactile audio
> graphics tool kit for improved
> graphicacy amongst visually impaired people ... AudioCAD
> .... is combined with AudioPIX, AudioTRIP and TraceMe .....
> [all are components of the new TGD
> Workshop but with AudioCAD and AudioTRIP provided as
> optional FREE products to TGD Workshop owners]
>
> 1999 Talking maps open doors for the blind: Carleton Prof.
> leads innovative research project, The Charlatan, October 14
> "It's very empowering", says
> Professor Taylor, "The modern map is not just something you
> look at, ... it involves sight, sound, and touch". These
> comments refer to the TGD AudioPIX
> system and the workshops associated with it with delegates
> from many countries of Latin America as part of the PAIGH
> project, initiated by Taylor.Members of
> the CNIB were also present and the CNIB director of
> government relations and international liaison says,
> ..."There is a lot of potential for educational and
> mobility applications here - to be able to do things they
> couldn't do before."
>
> 2000 7th International Workshop on Computerized Braille
> Production (including Tactile graphics), Sarawak State
> Library, 16-22 October Kutchin. National
> Council for the Blind, Malaysia and Sarawak State Library:
> sponsored by Japan Braille Library, Tokyo.
>
> 2001George, B and Kiernan, J.P L'Amerique au Bout des
> Droits. Americas pp. 54-55. The article refers to an
> ambitious program, funded principally by the
> Pan American Institute for Geography and History, to produce
> an electronic atlas of Latin America, including a tactile
> atlas. TGD AudioPIX was purchased in its
> English Spanish and Portuguese languages for use in
> countries throughout Latin America. Its use in training at
> Workshops in Canada, 'au Centre de researches
> en géomatiques et en cartographie de l'Université Carleton à
> Ottawa, au Canada' is discussed in some detail.
>
> 2004 Gardner, J.A and Bulatov, V Directly Accessible
> Mainstream Graphical Information. ViewPlus Technologies, Inc
> "This technique of enhancing tactile
> information with additional audio was pioneered by
> Parkes..."
>
>

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