I am pleased to announce the release of a digital publication titled Making History Accessible: Toolkit for Multisensory Interpretation. I am proud to have been a member of this collaboration. It details a range of
In this post, I will discuss a research paper that debunks the misleading, though often-quoted, statistic that only 10% of blind people in the United States read braille. That statistic has been repeated in academic
I have written about sonification, representing data with audio. My earlier posts were about astronomers analyzing data recorded by telescopes in outer space. The Accessible Oceans project also uses sonification to analyze data, but their
The disability rights activist Judith (Judy) Heumann died in Washington, D.C. on the afternoon of March 4, 2023. She was a fearless advocate for inclusion of disabled people in society, and she was an effective
When I started this blog, I wrote short posts announcing my publications with the link to each publication. I hadn’t developed my current practice of summarizing each paper as a blog post. This post summarizes
This post is the second in a series about sonification, representing data with nonspeech audio. I will demonstrate that sonification is an effective tool for learning scientific concepts and analyzing data giving examples from the
In this post, I define sonification as nonspeech audio that conveys information. It can also express emotion. Well-known examples of pattern recognition using sound include the tones of Big Ben for the BBC and the
In a December tradition, I write a post about the highlights of my work each year. This year I am focusing on multisensory exhibits that opened in 2022—because exhibit planning can take months or years,
Recently, I attended a webinar series about creating museum exhibits. During this series, the presenter repeated a key phrase that got me thinking. “Descriptions are boring.” Then the presenter would remind his audience that people
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