Percepção de imagens estáticas por pessoas com deficiência visual

Abstract

The perception of static images is one of the biggest problems of people with visual impairments. The traditional approach employed in elementary schools uses learning objects made by hand and with alternative materials. However, new digital technologies such as mobile devices, haptic interaction and sonification can and should assist in this process. In this context, this work presents a study about the tools used for the perception of static images nowadays besides presenting a mobile application to address this problem. The proposed approach uses touchscreens and response vibratory technologies offered by smartphones. The proposed methodology was based on a case study and also in software project based on agile methods. Preliminary results indicate that the proposed approach is satisfactory when applied to the abstraction of graphics primitives in the context of geometric shapes.