Designing 3D Tactile Braille Storybooks
PresentationGoh Fo Ler | Moderator: Lee Seow Ser
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How can stories be experienced through touch? Tactile storytelling supports children’s imagination, understanding, and connection to local stories. This talk explores the design and development of a 3D tactile braille storybook created for young children with visual impairments, from research and interviews to prototypes and testing. Learn about the challenges of simplifying complex visual elements for touch, balancing perspective and meaning, creating a tactile reading experience that is both accessible and engaging, and why it is vital to make such tactile storybooks more widely available.
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Goh Fo Ler (Singapore)
Fo Ler is a UI/UX designer with a multidisciplinary background, having worked across motion graphics, print, and wayfinding design. Her versatility and openness allow her to approach user experience design with fresh perspectives and a strong sense of visual clarity.
Lee Seow Ser (Singapore)
Lee Seow Ser is a former legal advocate turned community advocate, author and mother of two. She co-founded and leads “To SIR (Socially Inclusive Reads) With Love”－a Finalist (Communities of Good, Groundup) in Singapore’s President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Awards 2025－using creative arts resources, experiential programmes and human-centric interactions to promote empathy. Her first book Si Ma Guang and the Giant Jar with braille, tactile pictures and dyslexia-friendly font was a 2017 IBBY Outstanding Book for Young People with Disabilities. She also supports deafblind persons with tactile communication using the UK Deafblind Manual Alphabet.
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