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LAMBDA: A European System to Access Mathematics with Braille and Audio Synthesis

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2006)

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This paper deals with an innovative method to improve access to mathematics by blind students in an educational setting. It was designed and developed in the European project LAMBDA (Linear Access to Mathematics for Braille Device and Audio-synthesis). This system is made up of two main functional components: the LAMBDA code and the mathematical editor. The research project is funded by the European Union in the framework of the IST Programme. It started in 2002 and will end in 2006.

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  1. Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme VIS, Universität Stuttgart, Universitätsstrasse 38, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Waltraud Schweikhardt & Margarethe Gut

  2. Biblioteca di informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Comelico 39/41, I-20135, Milano, MI, Italia

    Cristian Bernareggi

  3. IRIT, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse, France

    Nadine Jessel & Benoit Encelle

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. The Universal Math Access Lab, University of San Francisco, 281 Masonic San Francisco, 94117, CA, USA

    Arthur I. Karshmer

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Schweikhardt, W., Bernareggi, C., Jessel, N., Encelle, B., Gut, M. (2006). LAMBDA: A European System to Access Mathematics with Braille and Audio Synthesis. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Karshmer, A.I. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11788713_176

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