Focker, Julia, Atkins, Polly, Waddington, Jonathan, Hicks, Kieran, Hawkes, Emma, Baker, Mollie, Williams, Caitlin, Hodgson, Tim, Jowel, Deepak, Irvine, Andrew, Patterson, John, Green, Craig and Dickinson, Patrick (2025) SENSE-braille: Children's Multisensory Experiences with Auditory-Haptic Gamified Activities: A mixed methods study. British Journal of Visual Impairment. ISSN 0264-6196 (In Press)
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Abstract or description
This research investigated sensory preferences and experiences of individuals with visual impairment and blindness, when interacting with a novel multisensory device for braille learning. The device comprised an enlarged braille cell, in which interacting with each button elicited a sound, haptic vibration, or an auditory-haptic stimulus. Children, adolescents, and adults with blindness or visual impairment placed their fingertips on the device to perceive braille letters. Parents rated their children’s auditory and tactile hyper- and hyposensitivity. All participants reported enjoyment, competence, and confidence during device interaction. Participants with blindness favoured auditory-haptic and auditory modalities, while participants with visual impairment also liked the haptic-only modality. Children with blindness who scored high on hyposensitivity revealed higher hypersensitivity scores within the auditory and haptic modalities, while children with visual impairment showed cross-modal hyper-and hyposensitivity correlations between tactile and auditory modalities. Multisensory enrichment of braille learning, applications, and diagnoses are discussed to outline future research.
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | visual impairment, blindness, multisensory, braille, sensory sensitivity |
Faculty: | School of Digital, Technologies and Arts > Games Design, Production and Programming |
Depositing User: | Kieran HICKS |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2025 14:38 |
Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2025 14:38 |
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URI: | https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/9265 |