1992 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development of system to visualize symptoms by sympols; an assistance for hearing-impaired people
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03670287
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
公衆衛生学
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| Research Institution | NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
IWATA Kokichi Nagasaki Univ.Sch.of Med.,Lecturer, 医学部, 講師 (30203384)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAMAMOTO Yuji Kwassui Women's College, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (50114806)
MATUBARA Shinichi Nagasaki Univ.College of Education,Ass.Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (30165857)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1991 – 1992
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| Keywords | Symptoms / Visual symbols / Communication / Hearing Impairements / Social Adaptation |
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| Research Abstract |
1.Development of methodology to visualize symptoms In this study, figures corresponding to 30 general symptoms were drawn by medical students on the basis of free imagination and association of visualized ideas. During the process of developing and increasing the comprehensibility of figures by trial and error basis, many practical suggestions were obtained from people working with us. Suggestions were classified into the following seven points: (1) Use simple lines, (2) Avoid to use cartoon-like expression, (3) Use facial expression to represent the general feeling and sensation of symptoms, (4) Try to discriminate the generality and/or locality of symptom, (5) Add situations to enhance the meaning, (6) Illustrate coping behaviors to enhance meaning, and (7) Express time and quantitative factors of the symptom.
2. Trial of the methodology and evaluation Symbols were inspected and the meaning of each symbol was guessed by three groups of people:(a) 7 hearing impaired people, (b) 20 specialists of sign language with normal hearing ability, and (c) 29 community health nursing students with normal hearing ability. On the average, these three groups guessed the meaning of 16.6,25.5 and 28.0 out of 30 figures, respectively. For those figures which were misunderstood by hearing impaired people, the details of the figures were corrected to reduce the misunderstanding.
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