Computerization of the kindergarten education using a pen input device

我们利用笔式输入设备，开发并评估了儿童在PC上可以轻松操作的教材。在听取某幼儿园教师意见的同时，于2002年设计并实现了在笔记本电脑和等离子触摸屏上运行的软件原型。由于许多幼儿园儿童喜欢用笔操作8个软件，所以事实证明，笔输入设备在小孩子的PC操作中是有效的。2003年，我们对去年制作的软件的可操作性进行了调查。此外，我们还创建并评估了能够自动移动操作对象的新软件。关于可操作性，我们想到了拨动操作(敲击)和拉动操作(拖动)。关于这些操作，我们分析和报道了大屏幕环境和笔记本电脑环境下二年级和三年级幼儿园教师的可操作性。从操作这些软件的幼儿园教师的观察发现，幼儿园教师在使用拉动操作时很难垂直移动，而且幼儿园教师对能够自动移动操作对象的软件感兴趣。研究开始时，有很多幼儿对电脑操作感到困惑，很多老师对电脑的使用持否定态度。然而，在研究结束时，对电脑操作感到困惑的幼儿人数有所减少，教师也积极使用电脑。因此，我认为通过这项研究实现了计算机化的促进。

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.