Contacts

Instructor

Gary Bishop
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gb at cs.unc.edu
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Research group

Course Materials

Book report choices

Norman. D. The Design of Everyday Things. Basic Books. September 17, 2002. ISBN 020532715X.

John Hockenberry, Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence, ISBN 0786881623

Irving Kenneth Zola, Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living With a Disability, ISBN 1592132448

John M. Hull, Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness ISBN 067973547X

William Rush, Journey Out of Silence, ASIN 0939644215

Nora Ellen Groce, Everyone here spoke sign language: hereditary Deafness on Marthas Vineyard, ISBN 067427041X

Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices, ISBN 0375704078

Marcia Scherer, Living in the State ofStuck, ISBN 1571290796

Previous Year's Web Page

Check out what we did in 2003.

Resource Tree

The resource tree provides multiple views of material related to assistive technology. The subcategories link to pages containing project ideas, lecture notes, and external links.

• Disabilities
• Cognitive
• Visual
• Auditory
• Physical
• Medical
• Interfaces
• Visual
• Auditory
• Tactile
• Devices
• Communication
• Telephone
• Face-to-face
• Internet
• Information visualization
• Text
• Maps and diagrams
• Rendering
• Social impact
• Acceptance
• Legal issues
• Education

Final Projects

Class Projects

• Gabe Su: Listening to video for navigation.
• Elise London, Jasen Hoover, and Konrad Reska: Accessible Music Composition
• Jackson Fox: An improved learning environment for adults with mental illness
• Patrick Dwyer and Peter VanLund: Audio RPG
• Sean Hanlon: Accessible Chess
• Josh Levy and Matthew Goldberg: Audio Dodgeball
• Luv Kohli: Audio Whack-a-mole

In-class Schedule

Assignments

• Read about Emacspeak due before class on 22 January.
• Book Reports due 30 March.

Other Lectures

Lectures of interest to class.