Function graphs are broadly used in mathematics teaching-learning from the secondary school level and essential in a wide range of disciplines at the university level. Despite its relevance in many fields, this mathematical concept still represents an obstacle to the inclusion of visually impaired students due to its visual components and the lack of affordable and accessible assistive technologies. To address this issue, the scientific community is currently taking into consideration the potentials offered by sonification processes, namely the transposition of visual components into sounds, producing a new way of accessing data.
SONAIRGRAPH is a project within the framework of the Erasmus+ European programme aiming to strengthen the cooperation between higher education institutions and third sector organisations to analyse, test and apply the potential of sonification processes in the representation of function graphs to improve the accessibility of mathematical content to students with visual impairments, departing from the experimental digital application Audiofunctions.
To achieve this, the project will:
- Analyse the educational potentials and challenges of using sonification techniques for the conceptualisation of function graphs and develop a methodological protocol to test Audiofunctions
- Test the digital application with higher education students from different national and educational backgrounds and characteristics to improve its current version.
- Promote and disseminate an improved and accessible version of Audiofunctions at the European level.
- Start Date: 09/2024
- End Date: 08/2027
Lead Partner: University of Torino, Department of Mathematics
Other Partners: Asociatia Comunitatea GIS din Timisoara, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Masaryk University of Brno, University of Granada, University of Valle d’Aosta.
Project contacts for UNIVDA: Prof.ssa Claudia Maria Chanu; Prof.ssa Carola Manolino
