Development of ICT teaching materials with prototyping for children with severe and multiple disabilities

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K04565
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: Kogakkan University (2017); Kumamoto University (2015-2016)
• Principal Investigator: OSUGI Nariki 皇學館大学, 教育学部, 教授 (10332173)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 森本 誠司 熊本保健科学大学, 保健科学部, 講師 (70568782) ; 清田 公保 熊本高等専門学校, 人間情報システム工学科, 教授 (80186353)
• Research Collaborator: SASANO Kiyoshi ; NAKASHIMA Katsuyuki ; KOBAYASHI Hideo
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 特別支援教育 / 教育工学 / 重度重複障害 / プロトタイピング / 視線入力 / 外部機器制御 / 教材開発

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We developed teaching material production environment using prototyping method for children with sever and multiple disabilities who can hardly move their bodies. Using eye-gaze input device and MS PowerPoint, children with sever and multiple disabilities can control switch toy with eye-gaze. Our developed teaching material production environment was inexpensive and easy to program, and was supported by teachers of ICT at a special school for physically disabilities. Children who had difficulty in using switch-toys due to sever and multiple disabilities made it possible to manipulate multiple movements by using eye-gaze input. Operation by eye-gaze uses the same eye in combination with seeing. So, it turned out that complicated movements and fast movements need ingenuity in arrangement and operation setting of the teaching materials.

Free Research Field

特別支援教育