TouchSmart Publishing to Present Touch User Interface (TUI) Technology for Education at AACE Conference
TouchSmart Publishing LLC is presenting a paper at the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) Conference in Washington, D.C. regarding the Touch User Interface (TUI) technology for education.
Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) November 1, 2004 – TouchSmart Publishing LLC, today
announced it is presenting a paper at the Association for the Advancement of
Computing in Education (AACE) Conference in Washington, D.C.
Where: Hyatt
Regency, Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington, VA 22202 USA,
telephone 703.418.1234, Room 7.
When: 430pm EST, November 3rd, 2004.
Jason Barkeloo, President and founder of TouchSmart Publishing will
present “Connecting to Digital Content Through Textbooks: Introducing the Touch
User Interface (TUI) Textbook that Bridges the Digital Divide.”
This
paper and demonstration will attempt to show how the TUI may bridge the digital
disconnect as described by Doug Levin and Sousan Arafeh in “The Digital
Disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools”
(2002).
Barkeloo says that “the five primary reasons for the digital
disconnect as articulated by Levin and Arafeh may be overcome with this
technology. This paper and demonstration will attempt to show the digital divide
bridging effect of the TUI.”
The discussion and presentation will show
the promise of decreasing the cost of textbooks while inversely increasing the
amount of content. The TUI can connect multiple learning styles and disabilities
to digital content that is warehoused on optical media as well as hard-drives.
The TUI turns the textbook into a remote control.
According to Barkeloo,
“the E-Learn Conference is one of the finest international electronic learning
forums with over seventy countries represented and more than a thousand
participants. I am excited that we were selected to demonstrate and discuss the
touch user interface (TUI) technology.” He added, “This technology may well meet
many of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and National Instructional Materials
Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) mandates.”
Co-author and TouchSmart
Publishing co-founder, Kathleen MacMahon, DVM claims, “Many more students may
educationally benefit as a result of this technology. Presenting science
educational content by pressing pictures and words in a textbook brings a new
meaning to ‘let your fingers do the walking’. When I taught college-level
biology and anatomy and physiology I think the students would have benefited
from a multi-sensory presentation approach. Dr. MacMahon finished by saying that
“Reading about the four-chambered heart is taken to a new level when the student
can press the picture of the cardiac muscle in the book and it is presented as a
audio/video on a monitor or television.”
Barkeloo continued that, “Dr.
MacMahon is a world-class researcher. I am pleased that she has chosen to be
involved with this endeavor to make delivery of educational content more
effective and efficient for students, especially those with special needs or
socioeconomic disadvantages.” Barkeloo concluded “as Dr. MacMahon indicated,
presenting an audio/video clip on the screen directly from the textbook has
promise to make learning more exciting. When you consider that Braille imprint
on the pages can lead to auditory-only content for those students with visual
impairments, or that the audio/video can be complete with sub-captions or
American Sign Language for those with auditory impairments, I am excited about
the prospect of this technology bridging the digital divide.”
For further
information, please contact TouchSmart Publishing at 513.225.8765 or visit
TouchSmart's website at http://www.touchsmart.net.
About TouchSmart Publishing,
LLC.
TouchSmart Publishing is a developmental-stage company poised to
distribute touch-sensitive wireless textbooks to K-12 math, science, and special
education needs students. The Company's mission is to create and distribute
exciting and easy-to-use interactive textbooks that connect to digital content
by using touch user interface (TUI) technology that allows a student to touch
pages in a book that wireless connect to digital content.
TouchSmart
Publishing expects to be a bridge over the digital divide for more students,
regardless of learning style, special needs or socioeconomic position, than are
currently connected. As a result, TouchSmart Publishing is the only complete No
Child Left Behind (NCLB) solution poised to meet the National Instructional
Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS).
TouchSmart Publishing is
headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio as a Main Street Ventures company, www.digitalrhine.com.
For more information, please
visit the TouchSmart Publishing web site at www.touchsmart.net.
About the Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), E-Learn Conference
E-Learn
2004 -- World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare,
& Higher Education is an international conference organized by the
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) and
co-sponsored by the International Journal on E-Learning.
This annual
conference serves as a multidisciplinary forum for the exchange of information
on research, development, and applications of all topics related to e-Learning
in the Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education sectors. Over
1,000 participants from 70 Countries attend.
For more information, please
visit the AACE website at www.aace.org/conf/elearn
Contact:
TouchSmart
Publishing
Jason Barkeloo, 513.225.8765
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