| Project/Area Number |
11480042
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B).
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational technology
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| Research Institution | Tsukuba College of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
MINAGAWA Hiroki Department of Information Science, Tsukuba College of Technology Research Associate, 電子情報学科・情報工学専攻, 助手 (00273285)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIYOSHI Shigeki Research Center on Educational Media, Division for Hearing Impaired, Research Associate, 教育方法開発センター(聴覚障害系), 助手 (80310192)
KOBAYASHI Makoto Department of Computer Science, Tsukuba College of Technology Research Associate, 情報処理学科, 助手 (60291853)
NISHIOKA Tomoyuki Department of Information Science, Tsukuba College of Technology Research Associate, 電子情報学科・情報工学専攻, 助手 (70310191)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2000
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2000)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
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| Keywords | visually impaired / hearing impaired / communication / information support / network / chat / virtual reality / wearable computer |
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| Research Abstract |
We studied about the possibilities and the problems of the way to supplying information for the visually impaired and the hearing impaired. So we evaluated and considered about the communication on computer network, face-to-face communication, and so on.
1.Character Based Communication System on Computer Network
We developed a chat application that has the user interface for the visually and the hearing impaired. Then, we did a communication experiments by the subjects with visually or hearing impairments. It got obvious from the results, that the most priority task especially for visually impaired is the accessibility, that how it realizes a natural communication on the network for hearing impaired, and so on.
2.Face-to-Face Communication Between Visually Impaired and Hearing Impaired
We evaluated several situations of communication as (1) directly (as lip reading), (2) writing, (3) via sign language /voice interpreter, (4) using chat, and so on. Especially, the chat took a good evaluation because of the reliability. There was a request for down sizing of the system like PDA.
3.Support System of Interactive Communication Between Hearing Impaired and Hearing Persons
We examined the proper way to present the text information to support interactive communication. As a result, we had some suggestion that "it is important to clearly indicate the time order that the text data are presented to a hearing impaired person.", " it is necessary to take notice of the intensity of the relation between a speaker and his/her text information.", and so on.
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