SENSE-braille: Children's Multisensory Experiences with Auditory-Haptic Gamified Activities

Focker, Julia, Atkins, Polly, Waddington, Jonathan, Hicks, Kieran, Hawes, Emma, Baker, Mollie, Williams, Caitlin, Hodgson, Timothy, Jowel, Deepak, Irvine, Andrew, Patterson, John, Green, Craig and Dickinson, Patrick (2025) SENSE-braille: Children's Multisensory Experiences with Auditory-Haptic Gamified Activities. British Journal of Visual Impairment.

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Abstract

This research investigated sensory preferences and experiences of individuals with visual impairment and blindness, when interacting with a novel multisensory device for braille learning. The device comprised an enlarged braille cell, in which interacting with each button elicited a sound, haptic vibration, or an auditory-haptic stimulus. Children, adolescents, and adults with blindness or visual impairment placed their fingertips on the device to perceive braille letters. Parents rated their children’s auditory and tactile hyper- and hyposensitivity. All participants reported enjoyment, competence, and confidence during device interaction. Participants with blindness favoured auditory-haptic and auditory modalities, while participants with visual impairment also liked the haptic-only modality. Children with blindness who scored high on hyposensitivity revealed higher hypersensitivity scores within the auditory and haptic modalities, while children with visual impairment showed cross-modal hyper-and hyposensitivity correlations between tactile and auditory modalities. Multisensory enrichment of braille learning, applications, and diagnoses are discussed to outline future research.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Blindness, braille, multisensory, sensory sensitivity, visual impairment
Depositing User:	Ms Raisa Burton
Date Deposited:	04 Aug 2025 15:11
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2025 10:35
URI:	https://marjon.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/18006

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