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The Note-Taker: An Assistive Technology That Allows Students Who Are Legally Blind - aishwariya - 10-04-2017 The Note-Taker: An Assistive Technology That Allows Students Who Are Legally Blind to Take Notes in the Classroom Abstract Note-taking is a fundamental learning activity that should be practiced by every serious secondary or postsecondary student. Research has shown that the mental processing that occurs during note-taking helps students consolidate and retain classroom instruction, even if they never study their notes afterward. However, students who are legally blind can have difficulty taking notes in the classroom. Even with a visual aid (such as s monocular) for viewing the front of the room, a fast paced class can make it difficult for a student who is legally blind to keep up with the lectures especially in more advanced classes. Some schools have attempted to help such students by equipping classrooms with audio or video recording systems, or by paying other students to take notes for them. However, these approaches do not actively engage the student in note-taking during the lecture. In this paper we discuss our research, which is aimed at developing a portable Tablet-PC-based Note-Taker that can be carried from classroom to classroom by the student, and does not require lecturers to adapt their presentations in any way. 1. Introduction The term legally blind is used to describe a level of visual impairment that typically makes a person eligible for government benefits. Legal blindness is defined as: (1) a central visual acuity of 20/200 or worse in the better eye, with the best possible correction, or (2) a visual field of 20 degrees diameter or less. According to the American Foundation for the Blind [1], in 2008 there were about 1.3 million Americans who were legally blind. The National Center for Policy Research for Women and Families [17] says the high school attrition rate for students with severe visual impairment or blindness is 40%, compared to 25% for fully sighted students. High school graduates with severe visual impairment are just as likely to take college courses as fully sighted students, but they are less likely to graduate from college. These statistics suggest that, as students with visual disabilities advance through their secondary and postsecondary schooling (when they are expected to take a more active role in their education, such as note-taking during class) they find it increasingly difficult to keep pace with their peers. Couple these statistics with the fact that only about 30% of legally blind working age people are employed, and we have a powerful argument for finding more effective methods for providing them with higher levels of education. Classroom note-taking helps students concentrate and understand the central concepts presented during lectures. It has been shown that active note-taking in class helps students recall information, even if the notes are never subsequently reviewed outside of class [2]. It has also been shown that note-taking helps note-takers perform better on far-transfer tasks, such as problem solving in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) classes [3]. Note-taking promotes a deeper level of understanding because an assimilative encoding process is engaged [4, 5]. The Note-Taker project described here was born out of necessity, when an undergraduate math and computer science student who works in our lab (and who is legally blind) found that the pace of the lectures in his senior-level math classes had become too fast for him to take adequate notes. His professors typically filled several boards multiple times during a 45-minute class, proving lemmas and theorems that relied on previous lemmas. He found himself getting lost during the theorem proofs. He was forced to either stop taking notes (which left him unable to remember the lemma by the time of the theorem) or to frantically try to write down everything, in which case he got virtually nothing out of the lecture. In either case, he wasn t fully understanding the proofs. During high school and college he had already tried out numerous assistive technologies, so he knew that there wasn t anything available that could fix his problem. 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