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Bangla Talking Calculator for Visually Impaired Students in Bangladesh

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An application named “BTbrailleCal” based on Android smart phone is designed to help visually impaired students (VIS) in calculating numbers. This paper describes a user interface with an easy-to-distinguish layout that enables VIS to interact with touch screen on the smart phone. Vibration feedback and audio feedback will be provided to the user regarding their input. Additionally, the paper illustrates the Braille method specially details about math Braille. Paper prototypes are created at the beginning and then the final design is done by using the designing software “Pencil”. This educational application will assist the visually impaired students to solve their mathematical problems.

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  1. Institute of Visual Informatics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Lutfun Nahar & Azizah Jaafar

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  1. Fac Info Science and Techn, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  2. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Peter Robinson

  3. Center for Digital Video Process, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Alan F. Smeaton

  4. Computer Science and Information Enginee, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan

    Timothy K. Shih

  5. Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

    Sergio Velastin

  6. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Institute of Visual Informatics, Bangi, Malaysia

    Azizah Jaafar

  7. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Institute of Visual Informatics, Bangi, Malaysia

    Nazlena Mohamad Ali

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Nahar, L., Jaafar, A. (2015). Bangla Talking Calculator for Visually Impaired Students in Bangladesh. In: Badioze Zaman, H., et al. Advances in Visual Informatics. IVIC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9429. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25939-0_29

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