STEM-related platform for visually impaired awarded NSF grant, Maine Edge reports
The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release announcing a $748,000 National Science Foundation grant for the development and evaluation of a first-of-its-kind remote learning platform. The system will provide people who are blind or visually impaired nonvisual access to STEM-related graphical information. The project, “A Remote Multimodal Learning Environment to Increase Graphical Information Access for Blind and Visually Impaired Students,” is led by Nicholas Giudice, a UMaine professor of spatial informatics who directs the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory. The research team also includes Justin Dimmel, a UMaine assistant professor of mathematics education and instructional technology, and Stacy Doore, a visiting assistant professor of computer science at Bowdoin College.