Information accessibility guidelines and practical models in science museums

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K12758
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Inagaki Shigenori 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (70176387)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 山口 悦司 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 准教授 (00324898) ; 楠 房子 多摩美術大学, 美術学部, 教授 (40192025)
• Research Collaborator: OGAWA Yoshikazu 国立科学博物館 ; NAMATEME Miki 筑波技術大学, 産業技術学部, 教授 ; EGUSA Ryohei 神戸大学, 大学院・人間発達環境学研究科 ; IWASAKI Seiji 国立科学博物館 ; SHIMA Eriko 国立科学博物館
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 科学教育 / ユニバーサルデザイン / 聴覚障害者 / 実践モデルの提案

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research was to make science education and information design researchers collaborate interdisciplinaryly, formulate information accessibility and guidelines in science museums and propose practical models as concrete examples. Therefore, in this research, focusing on the problem of information accessibility of children with hearing impairments, we formulate concrete guidelines and conducted two field trials for junior high school students with hearing impairment at the National Science Museum did. As a result, we were able to obtain valuable theoretical and empirical knowledge from the viewpoint of support of the hearing impaired for the universalization of future science museum exhibitions.

Free Research Field

科学教育