Andrea Kennel

• Doctor of Engineering
• FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts

SQL (Structured Query Language) allows a business user to communicate with a relational database. A learner who wants to master SQL needs practice, patience and motivation, which we support in a game called "SQL Scrolls". Student surveys we carried out show that this approach encourages our students to practice and students are enthusiastic and wan...

The teaching of databases and SQL is an active research area. We contribute by presenting a reusable and extensible SQL teaching experiment which uses a game and fits the paradigm of digital game based learning (DGBL). Although DGBL is hampered partly by the difficulty of obtaining statistically significant empirical results, the research shows tha...

A blind or visually impaired user can get lost in hyperspace on one single W3-page. This paper presents Web Access for Blind users (WAB), a working system which makes web-surfing easier for blind persons. Normally, structure and meta information in HTML documents are displayed visually and are difficult for blind users to recognize. WAB transforms...

In technical reports and papers interrelations are often represented as diagrams. With the aid of a touch panel and auditory display AudioGraf enables blind and visually impaired people to read such diagrams. The diagram is displayed on the touch panel where a part can be selected with a finger. The selected part will be auditorally displayed. If t...

'W3-Access for Blind People' is intended to make web-surfing easier for blind people. Structure information in HTML documents is transformed on the fly into a form, that can be read easier by visually handicapped. We assume that the blind computer user is already familiar with a screen reader and already working with a W3-browser. Our approach work...

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