Circumventing Graphical User Interfaces in Chemical Engineering Plant Design
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-College Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering Design Engineering Education Research Tablet PCs |
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Persons with Disabilities |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Reference - Educational Research Paper |
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Unknown |
| Author(s): |
Douglas Behrend Michael Cheung Noel Romey Peter Mlao Robert Beitle Robert Schwartz |
| Description: | Abstract: "Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are pervasive elements of most modern technical software and represent a convenient tool for student instruction. For example, GUIs are used for [chemical] process design software (e.g., CHEMCAD, PRO/II and ASPEN) typically encountered in the senior capstone course. Drag and drop aspects of GUIs are challenging for students with little or no visual acuity. We report on the use of several innovations to circumvent such aspects of GUIs." Figure caption: "Tablet PC with design medium layer. The computer has a transparency with tactile representation affixed to the material. The Tablet PC has the capability of sensing a left click by tapping and a right click by pushing a button on the barrel of the pen." Citation: ASEE Advances in Engineering Education, 1 (1), Fall 2007. |
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| Keywords: | AEE Advances in Engineering Education Persons with Disabilities |
| Is Component of: |
Advances in Engineering Education - Inaugural Issue - Volume 1 - Issue I |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
Creative Thinking (c) Design a system, component, or process |
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Conclusions: "the main issue with GgUIi-based technical software packages is the fact that the student or professional must manipulate graphics with the use of mouse actions to create tangible and working designs. A combination of imbedded audio cues and tactile representations allowed a visually impaired student to operate CHEMhemCAD, a technical software package used in academia and industry. adaptations described in this paper could, in principal, be applied to any based technical package used in a classroom setting. visually impaired person can easily generate diagrams with some kind of Ii/Oo system such as the Ttablet PC as outlined in this paper. Oour research shows that using an active design canvas such as the PC, a visually impaired student can function like his or her visual counterpart in the classroom." |
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Medium |
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High |
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| Publication Date: | September 2007 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://advances.asee.org/vol01/issue01/07.cfm |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
Advances in Engineering Education
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