Support system for hearing impaired students based on structuring visual information for the Specialized Education

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21300286
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Science education
Research Institution	Tsukuba University of Technology
Principal Investigator	KATO Nobuko 筑波技術大学, 産業技術学部, 准教授 (90279555)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	NAITO Ichiro 筑波技術大学, 産業技術学部, 教授 (00237182)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	MINAGAWA Hiroki 筑波技術大学, 産業技術学部, 教授 (00273285)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
Budget Amount *help	¥5,850,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,350,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Keywords	聴覚障害 / 情報保障 / 字幕 / コミュニケーション支援 / 授業保障
Research Abstract	For lecture of the higher education at universities, we have proposed a new support system for hearing impaired students that is the highlighted captioning keywords. Proposed support system is that the highlighted captioning is applied to the technical terms which are the key words by using a different character color from other words. It is expected that highlighted captioning keywords used in a lecture will improve readability and enable a quicker search of a specific piece of information without scanning the entire page. As the basic study, we conducted the comparison test of the system, and verified the effectiveness of the system.