2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of Assistive System for the Visually Impaired to Learn Skills on Graphical Programming

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19500783
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Educational technology
Research Institution	Tsukuba University of Technology
Principal Investigator	NAGAOKA Hideji Tsukuba University of Technology, 障害者高等教育研究支援センター, 教授 (30227996)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	視覚障害 / プログラミング / 汎用言語 / 開発環境 / 図形処理 / GUI / 学習環境 / 非視覚的方法
Research Abstract	In this study, an assistive system was developed to enable the severely visually impaired to design and develop a program workable on Windows system. A non-visual learning environment was also built up by applying the assistive system, in which he and/or she can acquire the skills on practical programming such as graphical programming without vision. As a result, it was revealed that the assistive system and learning environment were available to the severely visually impaired in getting the skills on programming in general-purpose language C#.

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