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A study on the floor plan tactualization system

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26350654
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
Research InstitutionNiigata University

Principal Investigator

Watanabe Tetsuya  新潟大学, 自然科学系, 准教授 (10342958)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) MINATANI Kazunori  大学入試センター, 研究開発部, 准教授 (90551474)
YAMAGUCHI Toshimitsu  新潟大学, 自然科学系附置人間支援科学教育研究センター, 特任助教 (40554283)
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords触地図 / 視覚障害者 / 立体コピー / 点字フォント / 触読しやすさ / 構内図 / 画像処理 / 点字 / 案内図 / バリアフリー
Outline of Final Research Achievements

(1) Software was developed that extracts walls only from floor plans and outputs them as vector lines. (2) It was shown that the conventional Braille font is easy to read tactually when printed at 17 to 18 points on capsule paper. (3) 3D measurements of raising on capsule paper revealed (a) the minimum heat setting that is necessary to raise Braille font sufficiently, (b) the dots on the four sides of the paper have less expansion than the dots near the center of the sheet, (c) the wider the lines are, the greater the expansion is and (d) the heights for the intersections are larger than those for the line parts. (4) A new Braille font was developed for printing on capsule paper. An experiment showed that it is more legible than conventional Braille font. (5) A tactile graphics Web site was created and the tactile maps ever created was uploaded there.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report

Research Products

(13 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 2 results) Presentation (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] ニュルンベルク工科大学(ドイツ)

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] [Paper] Determining the Optimum Font Size for Braille on Capsule Paper for Late Blind People2017

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuya Watanabe and Hirotsugu Kaga
    • Journal Title

      ITE Transactions on Media Technology and Applications

      Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Pages: 2-7

    • DOI

      10.3169/mta.5.2

    • NAID

      130005239857

    • ISSN
      2186-7364
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Determining the Optimum Font Size for Braille on Capsule Paper2014

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuya Watanabe
    • Journal Title

      IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

      Volume: Vol.E97-D Issue: 8 Pages: 2191-2194

    • DOI

      10.1587/transinf.e97.d.2191

      10.1587/transinf.E97.D.2191

    • NAID

      130004679303

    • ISSN
      0916-8532, 1745-1361
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] 触覚と特別支援教育(1) -触図認知と触覚教材・教具作り-2016

    • Author(s)
      韓星民, 和氣典二, 渡辺哲也, 北田亮
    • Organizer
      日本特殊教育学会第54回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      朱鷺メッセ(新潟県、新潟市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-17
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 触図作成サービス・ライブラリの国際調査2016

    • Author(s)
      渡辺哲也,加賀大嗣,山口俊光
    • Organizer
      ヒューマンインタフェースシンポジウム 2016
    • Place of Presentation
      東京農工大学(東京都小金井市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-06
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Expansion Characteristic of Tactile Symbols on Swell Paper: Effects of Heat Setting, Position and Area of Tactile Symbols2016

    • Author(s)
      Takahiro Hashimoto and Tetsuya Watanabe
    • Organizer
      15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs: ICCHP 2016
    • Place of Presentation
      Linz, Austria
    • Year and Date
      2016-07-13
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 立体コピーに適した点字フォントの開発とその評価2015

    • Author(s)
      橋本孝博, 渡辺哲也
    • Organizer
      電子情報通信学会 第82回福祉情報工学研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      産業技術総合研究所 臨海副都心センター(東京都江東区)
    • Year and Date
      2015-12-08
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 触知案内図作成支援ソフトウェアの開発2015

    • Author(s)
      八木翼, 渡辺哲也
    • Organizer
      第24回視覚障害リハビリテーション研究発表大会
    • Place of Presentation
      コラッセ福島(福島市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-27
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 立体コピーに適した点字フォントの開発2015

    • Author(s)
      橋本孝博, 渡辺哲也
    • Organizer
      第24回視覚障害リハビリテーション研究発表大会
    • Place of Presentation
      コラッセ福島(福島市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-27
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 立体コピーの膨張に影響を与える要因の検討 ~触知記号の紙面上での位置と面積、熱量の影響~2015

    • Author(s)
      橋本孝博, 渡辺哲也
    • Organizer
      電子情報通信学会 福祉情報工学研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      つくば市
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-13 – 2015-03-14
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Tactile Map Automated Creation System Using OpenStreetMap2014

    • Author(s)
      Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Satoko Koda, and Kazunori Minatani
    • Organizer
      14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs: ICCHP 2014
    • Place of Presentation
      Paris, France
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-07 – 2014-07-11
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Tactile Graphics

    • URL

      https://tactilegraphics.net/

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 触地図 Tactile Graphics

    • URL

      https://tactilegraphics.net/

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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