Establishment of development, education and evaluation cycle for active utilization of touch screen equipment for visually impaired person

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26285210
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: Tsukuba University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: ONO TSUKASA 筑波技術大学, その他部局等, 名誉教授 (20091829)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 大西 淳児 筑波技術大学, 保健科学部, 教授 (30396238) ; 坂尻 正次 筑波技術大学, 保健科学部, 教授 (70412963)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 視覚障害 / タッチスクリーン / 情報補償 / 触覚フィードバック

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this study is to establish a method for visually impaired persons in order to actively utilize touch screen. We conducted a research through four items of information assistive technology, operation, usage evaluation, and improvement in order to study the guideline for technology and education that enables visually impaired people to utilize touch screen themselves with their purpose. In this study, evaluation was conducted by our developed test application software for survey which works on commercial touch screen terminal. As a result, we had three main findings. Firstly, the flexible assistive customization is required in the screen design. Secondary, in the operation of touch screen, it is possible for visually impaired to access dynamic movement icon objects by using dynamic assistive technology such as sound labeling method. Thirdly, it is the most important that pseudo haptic function should be designed special combination with several pseudo haptic feedbacks.

Free Research Field

情報補償、情報セキュリティ