SBIR Phase I: Web-Based Touch Display for Accessible Science Education

SBIR 第一阶段：用于无障碍科学教育的基于网络的触摸显示器

• 批准号: 9860813
• 负责人: Louis Rosenberg
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: IMMERSION CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-01-01 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9860813&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Web; Based; Touch

9860813 This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project from Immersion Corporation will lower barriers that blind and visually impaired students experience in science education. Electrostatic fields, aerodynamics, molecular attraction, and mechanics are examples of undergraduate topics that intensively utilize visual media such as plotted data, computer graphics, and illustrations. Immersion has developed low-cost computer mouse capable of force display. This mouse will enable students to feel forces generated by simulations of these phenomena, turning inaccessible abstractions into tangible reality. The proposed work will develop enabling software for Internet force feedback and will apply it to a demonstration module designed for blind and visually impaired students. A team of blind scientists and educators will evaluate the application over the Internet. The next phase of the research will continue enabling software development, concluding in-depth assessment of outcomes using visually-impaired novice learners, and it will expand implementation to multiple educational sites. This project will provide essential steps in integrating persons with disabilities into Word Wide Web based learning technologies. While a number of investigators have examined the potential for mapping visual information to the sense of touch, to date, these have not proven commercially viable. Immersion's proposed touch surface, however, has the potential to meet accessibility needs of the blind and visually-impaired while achieving volume economies through mass-market appeal.

9860813浸入式公司的小企业创新研究第一阶段项目将降低盲人和视障学生在科学教育中遇到的障碍。静电场、空气动力学、分子引力和力学是大量使用可视化媒体的本科课题，如绘图数据、计算机图形和插图。浸入式已经开发出能够进行力显示的低成本电脑鼠标。这款鼠标可以让学生们感受到模拟这些现象所产生的力量，将难以理解的抽象概念变成有形的现实。建议的工作是开发互联网力反馈的支持软件，并将其应用于为盲人和视障学生设计的演示模块。一个由盲人科学家和教育工作者组成的团队将在互联网上评估这项应用。研究的下一阶段将继续进行软件开发，对视障新手学习者的结果进行深入评估，并将扩展到多个教育站点。这个项目将为残疾人融入基于万维网的学习技术提供必要的步骤。虽然许多研究人员已经研究了将视觉信息映射到触觉的潜力，但迄今为止，这些还没有被证明具有商业可行性。然而，Immersion公司提出的触摸表面有可能满足盲人和视障人士的无障碍需求，同时通过大众市场的吸引力实现批量经济。