Computerization of the kindergarten education using a pen input device

我们采用笔式输入装置，开发并评估了幼儿在电脑上易于操作的教材。并对一名计算机操作能力较差的教师进行了辅助，探讨了促进幼儿园教育电脑化的方法。在听取幼儿园老师的意见后，我们于2002年设计并制作了该软件的原型，该软件可在带有笔式平板显示器的笔记本电脑和带有触摸屏的等离子显示器上运行。由于很多幼儿园小朋友都喜欢用笔操作软件，所以事实证明，笔输入设备对小孩子的电脑操作是有效的。然而，事实证明，搜索操作是有必要的软件适合于笔输入设备。2003年，我们对去年制作的软件的可操作性进行了调查。此外，我们还开发并评估了能够自动移动操作主体的新软件。关于操作性，我们想到了戳操作（轻拍）和拉操作（拖拽）。针对这些操作，我们分析并报告了二年级班幼儿和三年级班幼儿在大屏环境和笔记本电脑环境下的可操作性。通过对幼儿园小朋友操作这些软件的观察发现，幼儿在使用拉扯操作时，很难进行垂直运动，幼儿对能够自动移动操作主体的软件很感兴趣。刚开始研究的时候，有很多幼儿园小朋友对电脑的操作感到困惑，也有很多老师对电脑的使用持否定态度。然而，在研究结束时，对PC操作感到困惑的幼儿园人数有所减少，教师也积极使用PC。因此，我认为通过这项研究，实现了对计算机化的促进。

By using a pen input device, we developed and evaluated the teaching materials which small children can easily operate at PC. And supporting a teacher, poor at operation of a computer, we researched into the method for promoting computerization of kindergarten education.While taking in the opinion of teachers of a kindergarten, we designed and prototyped the software which operates on a notebook PC with a pen tablet display, and a plasma display with a touch panel in 2002. Since many kindergartners enjoyed operating 8 softwares using a pen, it turned out that a pen input device is effective in PC operation of a small child. However, it turned out that it is necessary to search operation of the software suitable for a pen input device.In 2003, we investigated the operativity of the software which was made last year. Moreover, we created and evaluated the new software which can automatically move the subject of operation. About operativity, we thought of the poking operation (tap) and the pulling operation (drag). About these operations, we analyzed and reported operativity of second-year class's kindergarteners and third-year class's kindergarteners, in big screen environment and notebook PC environment.From the observations of the kindergarteners operating these softwares, it turned out that a vertical movement is difficult for a kindergartener when he uses the pulling operation, and that a kindergartener is interested in the software which can automatically move the subject of operation. When research was begun, there were many kindergarteners bewildered by PC operation, and many teachers were negative to use of a PC. However, the number of kindergarteners bewildered by PC operation decreases in the end of research, and teachers also use a PC positively. Therefore, I think that promotion of computerization was achieved by this research.