An approach to assist visually impaired students in systems modeling: a pilot study

• Pedro de Azevedo UTFPR
• Vinicius Vieira UTFPR
• Alinne Souza UTFPR
• Francisco Carlos Souza UTFPR

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/eres.2020.13716

Abstract

In recent years there has been a growing interest in attempts to include people, with special needs, performing Software Engineering activities such as programming and systems modeling. In this context, we present a tool called Blind Modeling system (B-Model) which aims to assist visually impaired people on system modeling activity supported by Unified Modeling Language (UML). For making the use of the B-Model aproach feasible, we implemented a langague called Blind Modeling Language (BML) and a prototype. The BML was evaluated with a blind student and the prototype was assessed through a pilot study using the requirements specification of two different scenarios performed by blind student for use case diagrams generation. The result shows the effectivennes of the B-Model approach, since the generated diagrams correspond to the specified functional requirements using the BML language.

Keywords: system modeling, inclusion, visually impaired

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