[accessibleimage] correction and link

Hi,
Sending a correction. The magazine that Bob Mareks article in is called
Visability, not Vision.
Here's a link to the magazine at RNIB.

http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_aboutvis.hcsp

Regards,
Lisa


accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx skriver:
>Hi,
>Have just been to a conference in Stockholm Tactile reading- tactile
>understanding. I had the great pleasure of meeting a couple of people from
>the list.
>
>Will try to give a short summary. It was fairly intense.
>
>Dr. Susanna Millar talked about what vision adds to touch. She also talked
>about reference points and how important they were. This I think should
>play a significant role when designing tactiles. 
> 
>From Lund there was two talks about recording and analysing tactile
>reading as one does eye movements. They use a technique that was pioneered
>by Susanna Millar where one uses clear plastic sheets with Braille or a
>tactile image embossed and record from below. They had designed a program
>to analyse this. It was very interesting to see a tactiles being read from
>this perspective. 
>
>Prof. Stephen von Tetzchner talked about blind children in joint attention
>activities and how important this is.
>
>Dr. John M. Kennedy talked about drawing and the blind and that the
>ability to do so is in a way hard wired in our brains. He showed many
>examples. His findings open up possibilities, I think, incredibly.
>
>Oliv Klingenberg talked about mathematics and tactile graphics, plus and
>minus.
>
>Sorry, this is a very pale account of what was said. Perhaps it could be
>said that the talks pointed to the positive potential and future of
>tactiles.
>
>Other news from the conference. It was very interesting to see the tactile
>books from TBP Sweden. They make beautiful books and the astonishing (for
>me) is that they produce 75-100 copies at a time. An designer illustrates
>the book, a company cuts out the bits with laser that are needed for the
>pictures, instead of by hand. The text is silk screened with black text
>under. And the illustrations are put together by the designer. The
>different textures used have a sticky- tape  backing so that it is easier
>to assemble. Individual cost of each book was fairly high, but must be a
>big savings by using the laser cutter.  It is the same idea of patterns as
>in Polly Edmans' book Tactile Graphics but using laser instead of
>scissors.
>
>Bob Marek had a presentation of his wonderful tools for understanding
>tactiles. In this summers edition of Vision from RNIB there is an
>extensive article by Bob. 
>From the Stockholm International Toy Research Centre there was a
>demonstration of games that use only sound.
>
>Hope others that where at the conference will hop in and correct me and
>elaborate, for it was a really interesting conference.
>Regards,
>Lisa
>
>Links
>http://www.tpb.se/english/Braille_Authority/tactileconference.htm
>http://www.sitrec.kth.se
>Lisa Yayla
>Huseby Kompetansesenter 
>Oslo Norway
>lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx


Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter 
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx

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