DIAGRAM Center’s Tools for Improving Image Descriptions: Description Templates #CSUN14 Josh Miele, Ting Siu, Val Morash, Lucia Hasty, and Steve Landau for Touch Graphics, Inc. @TouchGraphicsUS

Pearson

subject Total images

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Needing description

Majors Biology 2005 270 87%

Intro Psych 525 90 83%

US History 1226 420 66%

US Government 352 46 87%

Communication 154 42 73%

Interpersonal Communication 176 39 78%

Intro to SPED 176 150 15%

Ed Psych 175 120 31%

Ed Research 53 16 70%

Description Template Tool: Venn Diagram, Pie Chart, Line Graph

Evaluation Experiment

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n = 20

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Evaluation Experiment With

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10 observations ●  Time ●  Word Count ●  Accuracy ●  Usefulness

Analysis: ●  ANOVA ●  Post Hoc T-

Tests

Project collaborators: ●  Josh Miele, Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Center ●  Steve Landau, Touch Graphics, Inc. ●  Lucia Hasty, Rocky Mountain Braille Associates ●  Yue-Ting Siu, University of California, Berkeley ●  Val Morash, University of California, Berkeley

Project Management for Benetech ●  Julie Noblitt, DIAGRAM Center ●  Anh Bui, DIAGRAM Center

This project is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (Cooperative Agreement #H327B100001). Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position of the U.S. Department of Education.

For further information please contact: Steve Landau email: sl@touchgraphics.com phone: 800-884-2440 To register as a field tester in upcoming user trials please contact: Ting Siu email: ts@touchgraphics.com

For more information about DIAGRAM Center, please contact: Anh Bui email: anhb@benetech.org phone: 650-644-3400