Visually Impaired Children Kit for Inclusive Education (VICKIE)
Principal researcher
Name: Dominique Archambault
Project details
Start date: 01/10/2001
End date: 30/06/2005
Description: Vickie is intended to develop a learning environment for the inclusion of visually impaired students and pupils (VISP) in mainstream education. Vickie will provide services for three categories of end-users:
(1) learning utilities for the VISPs themselves, including simple tools like schoolbooks and notebooks, timetables, e-mail,
(2) editing tools for the creation of accessible documents, making possible for sighted teachers to create documents that can be printed or read either on screen, tactile or audio device,
(3) tools for augmenting standard electronic documents (provided by publishers) in order to make them accessible by the VISPs, intended to professionals working in transcription centres.
VICKIE will develop an architecture making possible co-operative work over a network in order to strengthen the community of teachers and VISPs. VICKIE aims at the effective commercialisation of a product helping the visually impaired into the digital age.
Other organisations involved in this project
Association Braillenet
Biblioteca Italiana Ciechi "Regina Margherita" Onlus
Eurobraille
Societa Consortile a REspinsibilita Mimitata Centro di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Studi Superiori in Sardegna CRS4
St Joseph's School for the Blind
Last updated: 17/04/2008