Dancing Dots Music Touch TTT: Multi-modal Teaching System for Blind musicians. T

Dancing Dots Music Touch TTT：盲人音乐家的多模式教学系统。

• 批准号: 7928397
• 负责人: William R McCann
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: DANCING DOTS BRAILLE MUSIC TECHNOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7928397
• 关键词: Aptitude Tests; Area; Back; Books; Child; Communication; Communications Media; Computer software; Dancing; Devices; Discrimination; Educational process of instructing; Enhancers; Fostering; Hearing; Image; Individual; Knowledge; Learning; Libraries; Mainstreaming; Marketing; Multimedia; Music; Peripheral; Philadelphia; Play; Population; Positioning Attribute; Printing; Publishing; Reader; Reading; Reporting; Resources; School-Age Population; Schools; Software Tools; Solutions; Structure; Students; System; Tablets; Tactile; Teaching Materials; Technology; Test Result; Testing; Touch sensation; Unemployment; Vision; Visually Impaired Persons; Work; Writing; abstracting; base; blind; braille; commercial application; improved; literacy; musician; peer; public health relevance; response; skills; software development; sound; tactile display; teacher; technological innovation; tool; touchscreen

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary/Abstract The Talking Tactile Tablet (TTT) is a well established, multimedia PC peripheral for teaching literary braille. This project explores the feasibility of displaying tactile images of print music notation and braille music symbols on the TTT hardware. Resulting courseware will teach blind musicians how to read and write braille music and how to understand the structure and usage of print music notation in order to improve communication with sighted teachers, peers and students. Problem Definition Most blind musicians don't understand how sighted teachers, classmates or their own sighted students read music in print. Consequently, they can have difficulty functioning in ensembles or classrooms where they are the sole blind person. The majority of blind students are "mainstreamed", that is, they attend their local public school. However, very few mainstreamed young readers of literary braille are being taught to read braille music notation even when braille is their primary communication medium for other subject areas. The TTT Music Touch Solution Add functionality to TTT to enable presentation of music concepts and literacy skills to blind readers. Result Braille-reading students and their teachers will have an entirely new and powerful set of resources for learning about concepts of print music and for learning how to read and write music in braille. Product: Dancing Dots will market the new Music Touch TTT courseware to its established customer base, schools, agencies, libraries and individuals and resell the TTT hardware to customers who do not yet own one. The courseware will consists of specially developed software together with related braille and print materials. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Project Narrative Specific Aims with Related Questions and Milestones Note: In following section, A = Aim, Q = Question, and M = Milestone. A1: Add Sound Playback Functionality to TTT Activities o M: Capability to associate sound effects or musical passages with any X-Y position on touch screen. A2: Develop new course content to teach concepts of staff notation to blind readers o Q: What is minimum magnification to make images large enough for accurate tactile discrimination? o M: Lesson activities created to teach structure of print music notation using tactile overlays. A3: Present excerpts from Taesch's An Introduction to Music for the Blind Student on TTT platform o Q: Present Taesch excerpts as published in book form or revised to exploit multimedia possibilities? o M: New TTT activities test user's knowledge of braille music signs. A4: Accept Braille Music Input and Play It back Using New Braille-to-MIDI Software o M: Users hear playback of music entered in the form of braille music in response to an activity directive. A5: Preliminary Feasibility Testing o M: Technology performs well enough for subjects to report likes and dislikes. A6: Revise software tools or content presentation based on preliminary user testing. o M: System performs per user requested revisions. A7: Conduct structured user testing at Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia. o M: Results of test recorded based on application of before and after aptitude tests. Potential for technological innovation and commercial application Foster increased braille music literacy among students and professionals. Better equip blind musicians to work alongside sighted peers, teachers and students. Create platform for others to author new teaching materials, interactive musical games, etc. Potential for Wider Application Ultimately, Dancing Dots might publish identical or very similar content on a number of similar devices such as Tactile Image Enhancer from Reprotronics and the IVEO from ViewPlus. Relevance This project provides a new tool to promote braille literacy for a population that is not being taught braille that should be. Studies by the National Federation of the Blind and others have shown that although as a group there is 70 percent unemployment among the blind, 80 percent of those blind people who are employed read braille. Shockingly, only 10 percent of school-age children in the U.S. are now being taught to read braille. This project adds a teaching resource for braille music to counteract the loss of such expertise that has resulted from the mainstreaming of blind students.

描述（由申请人提供）： 项目摘要/摘要 会说话的触觉平板电脑 (TTT) 是一款成熟的多媒体 PC 外设，用于教授文学盲文。该项目探讨了在 TTT 硬件上显示印刷乐谱和盲文音乐符号的触觉图像的可行性。由此产生的课件将教盲人音乐家如何阅读和编写盲文音乐以及如何理解印刷乐谱的结构和用法，以改善与视力正常的教师、同伴和学生的沟通。问题定义 大多数盲人音乐家不理解视力正常的老师、同学或他们自己视力正常的学生如何阅读印刷版音乐。因此，他们在作为唯一盲人的集体或教室中可能会遇到困难。大多数盲人学生都是“主流化”的，也就是说，他们就读于当地的公立学校。然而，很少有主流的文学盲文年轻读者被教导阅读盲文音乐符号，即使盲文是他们在其他学科领域的主要交流媒介。 TTT 音乐触摸解决方案 为 TTT 添加功能，以便向盲人读者展示音乐概念和识字技能。结果 盲文阅读学生及其老师将拥有一套全新且强大的资源，用于学习印刷音乐的概念以及学习如何用盲文阅读和书写音乐。产品：Dancing Dots 将向其现有客户群、学校、机构、图书馆和个人推销新的 Music Touch TTT 课件，并向尚未拥有 TTT 硬件的客户转售 TTT 硬件。该课件将由专门开发的软件以及相关的盲文和印刷材料组成。 公共卫生相关性：项目叙述具体目标以及相关问题和里程碑 注：在以下部分中，A = 目标，Q = 问题，M = 里程碑。 A1：向 TTT 活动添加声音播放功能 o M：能够将声音效果或音乐段落与触摸屏上的任何 X-Y 位置相关联。 A2：开发新的课程内容，向盲人读者教授五线谱的概念 o 问：使图像足够大以进行准确触觉辨别的最小放大倍数是多少？ o M：创建课程活动，用于使用触觉覆盖来教授印刷乐谱的结构。 A3：在 TTT 平台上展示 Taesch 的《盲人学生音乐简介》的摘录 o 问：展示以书籍形式出版的 Taesch 摘录，或者为了利用多媒体可能性而进行修订的 Taesch 摘录？ o M：新的 TTT 活动测试用户对盲文音乐符号的了解。 A4：接受盲文音乐输入并使用新的盲文转 MIDI 软件进行播放 o M：用户可以听到以盲文音乐形式输入的音乐的播放，以响应活动指令。 A5：初步可行性测试 o M：技术表现良好，足以让受试者报告喜欢和不喜欢。 A6：根据初步用户测试修改软件工具或内容呈现。 o M：系统执行每个用户请求的修订。 A7：在费城奥弗布鲁克盲人学校进行结构化用户测试。 o M：根据能力倾向测试前后的应用记录的测试结果。技术创新和商业应用的潜力 促进学生和专业人士提高盲文音乐素养。 更好地帮助盲人音乐家与视力正常的同龄人、教师和学生一起工作。 为其他人创建创作新教材、互动音乐游戏等的平台。 更广泛应用的潜力 最终，Dancing Dots 可能会在许多类似设备上发布相同或非常相似的内容，例如 Reprotronics 的 Tactile Image Enhancer 和 ViewPlus 的 IVEO。相关性 该项目提供了一种新工具，可以帮助未接受盲文教学的人群提高盲文识字能力。全国盲人联合会等机构的研究表明，虽然盲人群体的失业率高达 70%，但在就业的盲人中，80% 阅读盲文。令人震惊的是，目前美国只有 10% 的学龄儿童正在接受盲文阅读。该项目增加了盲文音乐的教学资源，以抵消因盲人学生主流化而导致的此类专业知识的损失。