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The access to artworks by visually impaired people requires a simplified tactile representation of paintings. This paper presents the difficulties of direct transcription of artworks and the test results of simplification of the paintings done by Australian Aborigines which don’t have purely visual elements such as shadows or perspective. The implemented methodology is bottom-up: it starts with tactile representation of basic elements relevant to the understanding of the whole painting, then their association into more complex concepts. The context of associations is explained through audio-description. The results of the tests with visually impaired persons are analyzed and explained.
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The research on which this work is based is funded by CNRS, TETMOST project, and it is done with the collaboration between University of Rouen Normandy and Department of Seine Maritime and Espace Handicap of the University of Rouen.
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Romeo, K., Chottin, M., Ancet, P., Lecomte, C., Pissaloux, E. (2018). Simplification of Painting Images for Tactile Perception by Visually Impaired Persons. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10897. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94274-2_35
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