Clicks
Role: Lead Designer ​​
Team: Marian Adusei, Do Young Lee ​​
Tools: Solidworks, Keyshot, Illustrator, Proto.io, Photoshop, PowerPoint​​
Challenge
Visually impaired children face challenges in learning spatial content and materials, such as geometry. While many existing tools, such as string boards or protractors with physical angle markers, can facilitate learning, these devices are very specific. Added to this fact is the lack of digital tools for individual geometry study.
Solution
Our solution is Clicks, a digital manipulative for visually impaired children (KG to grade 3) that supports a range of independent geometry education tasks and ties physical adjustments of the device to a dynamic digital representation and additional audio feedback. Conference Paper & Patent
Process
Research
Analysis
Ideation
Interim
Iterate
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Literature Review
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User Identification
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Interview and observe users
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Establish use problems
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Interview and video transcribing
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Data sorting
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Design direction creation
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Sketching
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Foam modeling
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Presentation
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Discussing changes
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Make design changes
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Defense Presentation
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Patent Application
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CHI Competition
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Goal /Initial Prototypes
We reviewed previous work done for visually impaired students in this area of education as there were compliance restrictions about interviewing students. Also, the instructors of the students were interviewed and observed as they taught geometry or used the initial prototypes built.
Prototyping / Iteration
Final Design
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Final Design
