1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study on Mathematic Braille Code System for the Advanced Education of the Students with Highly Visual Impairment
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07680240
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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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 |
KURIHARA Tooru Tsukuba College of Technology, Department of Information Sciences, Associate Professor, 情報処理学科, 助教授 (60225266)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SAITO Reiko Tsukuba College of Technology, Department of Information Sciences, Associate Pro, 情報処理学科, 助教授 (20196025)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1997
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| Keywords | mathematic Braille / historical study / international comparison / education for the visually impaired / 記号 |
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| Research Abstract |
The objective of the research was to establish the basis of the Braille code system and Braille expresion for describing the mathematics of university level on occasion of the beginning of the university education for the visually impaired by the public responsibility in Japan, for which has been waited for a long time. In order to accomplish the purpose, the follwoing works were proposed at the beginning of the project.
1.Investigating and understanding the present and past mathematic Braille code systems in Japan and foreign countries, and examining the problems.
2.Hearing and examining the opinions of the Braille users on the present mathematic Braille code system in Japan and foreign countries.
3.Proposting the mathematic Braille code system for the university education in Japan as the result of the above mentioned researches.
In the course of the researching acivities, the investigators have reached at the following view points.
1.In order to understand the present mathematic Braille code system, it is necessary to study the historical process.
2.An easy-going trend of respecting superficial formalism and neglecting the essential feature of tactile reading is consicuous in the recent process of establishing the universal Braille code in English.
In the final year of the project, the investigators actively collected the documents for historical studies and Ms. Saito is presently publishing the historical tables of the mathematic Braille codes in Japan.
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