Publications

 India hosts a significant portion of the global visually impaired population, constituting one-third of the 2.2 billion affected individuals (Hindustan Times, 2017). In India, there are about 400+ special schools dedicated to the visually impaired students employing 2000 teachers, of whom 60% are persons with visual impairment. (Vikaspedia, 2020) Even…

Abstract Brief: Blind and visually impaired students across India face challenges learning complex scientific diagrams. While teacher assistance is essential, the high student-teacher ratio makes it difficult to provide an engaging learning experience at scale. In this pilot study, we introduce IRIS, a novel TV remote-sized product designed for visually…

Stakeholder perspective and recommendations for action November 2024, India Report prepared by: Neha Trivedi, Spandan, Inclusion and Accessibility Consultancy; Lakshmi Narasimhan, TSI Consulting, LLP Published by: Vision Empower This report seeks to summarise the landscape of unmet needs and challenges and present recommendations for way forward for the sector of…

Authors: Paul Dsouza, TouchéTech Lab; Meera Muthukrishnan, Vision Empower; Rebecca Carvalho, Vision Empower; Kartik Joshi, Centre for Accessibility in the Global South, IIIT Bangalore Abstract Learning geometry concepts has been a persistent challenge for students with visual impairments. Thelack of appropriate accessible tools for geometry construction and drawings have resulted…

Meghna Chowdhury and Supriya Dey write on the theme of Well-being at Vision Empower in the January 2025 issue of Samuhik Pahal, WIPRO’s journal of collective action. At Vision Empower (VE), fostering both individual and collective well-being is at the heart of our organizational approach.

Vision Empower celebrated National Science Day 2024, from 21st to 28th March 2024 at 34 special schools across 10 states in India. The week-long celebration was a great success. This book captures the essence of Science Day showcasing the incredible achievements of our little Einsteins who created tactile and accessible science models, brought…

Head over to page Pg 40 to read Vision Empower’s work on ‘Happily Bridging the Computational Thinking Divide’

https://visionempowertrust.org/new/wp-content/uploads/publications/Science-Day-Vision-Empower.pdf

This book written by Catherine Holloway and Giulia Barbareschi of the University College London features two case studies from Vision Empower in the third and fourth chapters respectively. These case studies have been written by Supriya Dey, Amit Prakash and Manohar Swaminathan.

The article talks about the various ways Vision Empower is making numeracy accessible for children with visual impairment. (Pg 11)

Abstract: This paper argues that, while universities have a crucial role to play in social innovation by democratizing knowledge, fulfilling that role in the Global South requires them to partner with civil society actors such as NGOs. With their history of working with the socially disadvantaged, NGOs have a unique…

Design of Programs for Students and Teachers with Visual Impairment in the Global South: A collaborative response to the COVID19 pandemic in Karnataka, India. This entry from Vision Empower was accepted for the CHI 2021 conference workshop on Disability design in low resource settings.

Supriya from Vision Empower took part in the "Accessible Computer Science Fall Workshop" Nov 17, 2020 - Nov 19 2020 on "Using research to make Computer Science education accessible to all learners" organized by Microsoft, University of Washington, and University of Colorado, Boulder. The whitepaper, Reimagining Accessibility and Inclusion in…

Article by Supriya for Samuhik Pahal, a Wipro Foundation newsletter : Addressing the new abnormal - COVID response for visually impaired teachers in schools for the blind

Co-authored by Vidhya Y for a workshop at The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020 View Publication

Project Torino is a physical programming environment designed for teaching computational thinking to children in schools in the UK, regardless of the level of vision. We introduced project Torino to children in three schools for the blind in Bangalore, India as a toy for playing with songs, rhymes, and stories.…

Gesu India (MSR India), Geetha Ramakrishna (Vision Empower), Jyoti Bisht (Vision Empower), Manohar Swaminathan (MSR India)

ICT Trends: Chap 3. Assistive technologies Amit Prakash, Angel Jeena, Apoorva Bhalla, Rajesh Hanbal, Sanjay V.P., Supriya Dey and Vidhya Y.

By Venkatesh Potluri, Priyan Vaithilingam, Suresh Iyengar, Y. Vidya, Manohar Swaminathan, Gopal Srinivasa

By Kameswaran, Vaishnav, Robin Brewer, Tiffany C.E. Veinot, Jatin Gupta, Joyojeet Pal, Sile O'Modhrain, Aakanksha Parameshwar, Vidhya Y, an, et al

By Supriya Dey, Vidhya Y, Mounika Neerukonda, Suprgya Bhushan and Amit Prakash