CSC 575 - Accessible Computing Seminar

Dr. R. M. Siegfried

Presentation and Paper 1

Due Thursday, April 18, 2024

You will each be assigned a paper to present. You are expected to submit your PowerPoint slides and a 2-3 page paper based on the presentation (and obviously your slides)

You will be assigned a date on which you will speak.

The papers on Blind Programmers include:

• Teaching the Blind to Program Visually, Robert M. Siegfried, Denis Diakoniarakis, and Uchechukwu Obianyo-Agu. Information Systems Education Journal Vol. 3 No. 23, p. 3-11.
• A Java Programming Tool for Students with Visual Disabilities, Ann C. Smith, Joan M. Francioni, Sam D. Matzek. Assets '00: Proceedings of the fourth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies (November 2000) p 142-148.
• Lessons And Tools From Teaching A Blind Student, Richard Connelly. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Vol. 25 No. 6 (June 2010), p. 34-39.
• StructJumper: A Tool to Help Blind Programmers Navigate and Understand the Structure of Code , Catherine M. Baker, Lauren R. Milne, Richard E. Ladner. CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System. (April 2015). p.3043-3052.
• Interviews and Observation of Blind Software Developers at Work to Understand Code Navigation Challenges, Khaled Albusays, Stephanie Ludi, Matt Huenerfauth. ASSETS'17 (Oct 29. - Nov. 1, 2017, Baltimore MD), p. 91-100.
• Educational Experiences of Blind Programmers, Catherine M. Baker, Cynthia L. Bennett, Richard E. Ladner. SIGCSE'19, (February 27- March 2, 2019, Minneapolis, MN), p. 759-765.
• Accessible AST-Based Programming for Visually-Impaired Programmers, Emmanuel Schanzer, Sina Bahram, Shriram Krishnamurthy. SIGCSE'19 (February 27-March 2, 2019, Minneapolis, MN). p. 773-779.
• Adapting Student IDEs for Blind Programmers , Emmanuel Schanzer, Sina Bahram, Shriram Krishnamurthy. Koli Calling '20 (November 19-22, 2020, Koli, Finland) p. 773-779.

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