[Artbeyondsightmuseums] Food for Thought: What We can Learn from Kids Toys

[Kendra. Schaber]

Hi Tina! 
Yes I have seen them. One of my sister's kids has one of them. I think Leap Frog came up with that one. The Oregon School for the Blind had a book like that from Leap Frog. I don't know if it's possable for this kind of tech can be applied to a painting but it would be worth a try. I think it would work best with either puff paint or the machine that makes those amazing tactile pictures that I got from Youth SLAM in Baltimore of 2007. If any one from Youth SLAM is on this list, you might know what I'm talking about. If you could put one of the kind of tactile picture that is used at Youth SLAM in ones of those books that you saw, you would get whatever was on the picture, any written words that comes on the picture in both print and Brail and the voice discription of the picture. Why not that route? I think it could cover the bases. What do you all think? 
Kendra 


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> On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Tina Hansen via Artbeyondsightmuseums <artbeyondsightmuseums at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Just the other day, I was at my local mall so I could beat the heat. While there, I happened to look in the children's department in several stores. I noticed that there were a number of kids' books that included sounds which added to the story. There were some buttons on a cover of the book, and they were clearly defined to make it easier for the child to press them.
> 
> While the sound quality was poor, it did make me think: Can we find a way to do something like this with art? Maybe the audio could be improved so that a user could either play it aloud or through a headset for privacy.
> 
> It made me wonder if it was possible to place recording technology inside a poster of a painting so the user could explore a painting with running commentary. I understand that new technology is being developed to do just that.
> 
> Has anyone seen what I'm talking about? Thanks.
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