[BlindMath] BlindMath Digest, Vol 139, Issue 5

[Zachary Mason]

Hapy to.

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> On Feb 21, 2018, at 11:06 PM, Vincent via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> A member of my lab in the sonification lab at Georgia Tech, Jared Batterman,
> is conducting his final study for his Engineering Psychology PHD.  Our lab,
> his research, and mine deals with displaying of information in a non-visual
> format.  Mostly, this consists of sonifying data.  Jared's overall research
> for his dissertation is dealing with how we understand error and how it is
> presented using Statistics.  Blind people have severe difficulty with this,
> but that is not unique.  Most sighted people are terrible at it as well.  It
> is not uncommon in academic conference presentations for the error bars to
> be presented incorrectly.  All too often, no tactile representation of error
> is available and a sighted person has to describe how data is presented,
> including the error bars.  This has affected me in my own graduate research.
>
> Below is a link to his study, where he is requesting volunteers to take his
> study.   He is also asking low-vision and blind people who have taken
> Statistics to complete it as well.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Vincent Martin
> PhD student
> Human Centered Computing
> Georgia Tech
>
>
>
>> A link to my dissertation study is below.  Feel free to participate and
> share the link with anyone you know who >would qualify (basically anyone who
> has taken stats).  I also need at least 5 to 7 people with visual
> impairments >to participate, so if you can give the link to anyone who fits
> that bill, that would help tremendously.
>
> Study link:
> https://gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_efXfV6Ks6OfOMpT
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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