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<h1><b>TouchSmart Publishing to Present Touch User Interface (TUI)
Technology for Education at AACE Conference</b></h1> <br><br>
<i>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.<br><br>
</i>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.<br><br>
Where: Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington,
VA 22202 USA, telephone 703.418.1234, Room 7.<br><br>
When: 430pm EST, November 3rd, 2004. <br><br>
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.”<br><br>
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).<br><br>
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.”<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.”<br><br>
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.”<br><br>
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.”<br><br>
For further information, please contact TouchSmart Publishing at
513.225.8765 or visit TouchSmart's website at
<a href="http://www.touchsmart.net">http://www.touchsmart.net</a>.<br><br>
About TouchSmart Publishing, LLC.<br>
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. <br><br>
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). <br><br>
TouchSmart Publishing is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio as a Main
Street Ventures company,
<a href="http://www.digitalrhine.com">www.digitalrhine.com</a>.<br><br>
For more information, please visit the TouchSmart Publishing web site at
<a href="http://www.touchsmart.net">www.touchsmart.net</a>.<br><br>
About the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
(AACE), E-Learn Conference<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
For more information, please visit the AACE website at
<a href="http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn">www.aace.org/conf/elearn</a><br><br>
Contact:<br>
TouchSmart Publishing<br>
Jason Barkeloo, 513.225.8765<br>
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