The Design of wearable technology and contents for hearing-impaired person

我们的研究为听障学生在开放空间中提供了一种新的学习方法。该方法的特点是使用了作者新开发的便携式激光显示装置。听障学生的学习困难来自于他们在学生、教师和目标对象之间不能顺利地互动。在课堂上，我们经常熟悉这种情况，然而，在开放空间的情况下，到目前为止，我们还没有什么有效的方法。为了解决开放空间环境下的学习问题，我们描述了一种新的学习方法，通过一个方便的激光显示设备：大胖子棒(BFW)来显示对目标对象的直接解释。BFW被设计成具有以下功能：1)方便携带，2)通过PC上的创作工具呈现角色、图像和动画。为了评估效果，我们对筑波工业大学的听障学生进行了密集的实验。研究结果表明：1)一位没有相关教学经验和专业知识的普通讲师能够很好地讲授BFW；2)BFW讲解目标对象的结构简单明了，对听障学生特别有教育意义。

Our research presents a novel learning method for hearing-impaired students in an open space. The method is characterized by the use of handy laser-show device newly developed by the authors. The difficulty of the learning of hearing-impaired students comes from the fact that they cannot smoothly interact with each other among students, teachers, and target objects. In a classroom lesson, we are often familiar with the situations, however, in case of an open space, so far, we have had few effective methods. To solve the issues in open space situations, we describe a new learning method, in which we show direct explanations on the target object through a handy laser-show device : Big Fat Wand (BFW). BFW is designed to have capabilities of 1) carrying easily, and 2) presenting characters, images, and animations through authoring tools on a PC. To evaluate the effectiveness, we have carried out intensive experiments with hearing-impaired students of Tsukuba University of Technology. The results have revealed 1) that a usual lecturer with no experience nor expertise about the teachings to them is able to give good lectures with BFW, and 2) that BFW explanations with simple figures about the structure of the target objects are especially educative for hearing-impaired students.