Development of clinical evaluation support applications with consideration for visually impaired students and medical practitioners

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K14312
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 09070:Educational technology-related
• Research Institution: Tsukuba University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: FUKUSHIMA Masaya 筑波技術大学, 保健科学部, 講師 (30735759)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 視覚障がい / 特別支援教育 / 理療 / 教育工学 / 支援技術 / 臨床 / ICT / タブレット

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to develop clinical evaluation support applications that considers visually impaired practitioners and to verify the usefulness.
The main studies conducted to achieve the above objectives were: 1) a survey on difficult events in clinical evaluation for practitioners with visual impairments; 2) development and usefulness survey of the "CAST-Q" questionnaire form application; and 3) development and reliability study of the "CAST-R" joint range of motion measurement application.
As main results, "CAST-Q" showed a higher-than-average level of user satisfaction, suggesting that it is useful as an evaluation tool that can replace paper-based questionnaires. "CAST-R" showed a certain level of reliability. Based on these results, the applications were released to the App Store (Apple Inc.).

Free Research Field

視覚障がい教育、特別支援教育、教育工学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究を通じ、視覚障がいを有する施術者は、臨床での評価において、主に視覚を用いた評価や文字・数値の読み取りに困難を感じる者が多いことが示された。また、これらの困難に対し、視覚障がいに配慮して開発されたユニバーサルデザインな評価支援アプリが、有用な支援ツールであることが示された。
本研究の成果は、アプリとして一般公開しており、視覚障がいを有する施術者の臨床業務を効果的に支援することが期待される。