Tactile Maps Automated Production (TMAP)

Google Tech Talks
October 12, 2006

Dr. Miele is an alumnus of the University of California at Berkeley where he received his BA in Physics and his Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics. He is currently a Research Associate at The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute’s Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center where he is conducting research in the areas of tactile maps and auditory displays. In the early 1990’s, Dr. Miele was on the development team for Berkeley Systems’ outSPOKEN — the first screen reader that provided a significant level of accessibility for a GUI environment — and has consulted extensively within the access technology industry on a range of issues related to non-visual user…