Presentation 2015-10-26
A Questionnaire Survey on ICT Environment Used by Visually Impaired
Yoshihiko Kimuro, Takafumi Ienaga, Akito Teraoka, Seiji Okimoto,
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Abstract(in English) In the information society, understanding of the basic principles of information technology is one of the common sense. In order to understand the principles, programming education is meaningful and useful for beginners. That is same for visually impaired students, too. Until recently, PC have been used for the programming education. However, mobile devices such as mobile phones, smartphones and a tablet PCs are being used instead of conventional PCs. Therefore, we took a questionnaire survey aimed to know the possession rate of portable devices among students with visual impairment. In this paper, we reported the result of the surveying.
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Paper # WIT2015-58
Date of Issue 2015-10-18 (WIT)

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Committee WIT
Conference Date 2015/10/25(2days)
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Place (in English) Kawatana Grand Hotel
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Topics (in English) Ergonomics and Well-being Information Technology, etc.
Chair Kiyohiko Nunokawa(Tokyo International Univ.)
Vice Chair Chikamune Wada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Chikamune Wada(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant Tomohiro Amemiya(NTT) / Takeaki Shionome(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Manabi Miyagi(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.)

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Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Questionnaire Survey on ICT Environment Used by Visually Impaired
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1st Author's Name Yoshihiko Kimuro
1st Author's Affiliation Fukuoka Institute of Technology(FIT)
2nd Author's Name Takafumi Ienaga
2nd Author's Affiliation Fukuoka Institute of Technology(FIT)
3rd Author's Name Akito Teraoka
3rd Author's Affiliation Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies(ISIT)
4th Author's Name Seiji Okimoto
4th Author's Affiliation Fukuoka Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired(Fukuoka Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired)
Date 2015-10-26
Paper # WIT2015-58
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) WIT-269
Page pp.pp.39-44(WIT),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-10-18 (WIT)