| Project/Area Number |
25560101
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Educational technology
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| Research Institution | Tsukuba University of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIYAKAWA Masahiro 筑波技術大学, 名誉教授 (70248748)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
MURAI Yasuyuki 日本薬科大学, 薬学部, 准教授 (30373054)
SEKITA Iwao 筑波技術大学, 保健科学部, 教授 (40357322)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Keywords | 視覚障害補償 / 触地図 / オンライン地図 / 情報共有化 / 移動支援 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We describe a method of sharing information between a tactile-map on paper and an online-map on the information terminal (e.g., tablet computer), by using "digital pen" technology which is used as an input method of hand-written characters. Our method is based on synchronizing the location of contact point on the tactile-map with the corresponding point on the online-map achieved through the following steps: 1) Create a road-only tactile map in SVG (scalable vector graphics) from the target online-map and copy it onto a tactile paper, 2) Point on the tactile-map by digital pen. Then, the coordinates of the contact point is synchronized by the digital pen synchronization mechanism and mapped onto the corresponding location in the online-map (a calibration is done beforehand between the maps using SVG facility). Thus, various information of the online-map can be provided to the visually impaired user in the text form from the online-map database in the similar way as to the sighted user.
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