Fundamental study on image information sharing for the education with visual impairment

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24531231
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: Tsukuba University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: ONISHI Junji 筑波技術大学, 保健科学部, 教授 (30396238)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 特別支援教育 / 視覚障害 / 情報保証 / 画像処理 / 統合教育ツール / 教育工学 / 教育支援システム / 福祉情報工学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this study is to develop new methods which enable to provide visual information that it is difficult to represent in words, by taking advantage of the visual impairment's abilities. We evaluated our developed systems with taking advantage of current information assistive technologies in order to improve the abilities that the person with visual impairment has. The result of this study brought effectives to share visual information between a teacher and students under integrated education class without requiring special education skills.

Free Research Field

福祉情報工学